raupo
Britishnoun
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Origin of raupo
Māori
Example Sentences
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We may easily imagine that a hill of this kind, covered from bottom to top with houses thatched and built of reeds, rushes, and raupo, would be a mere mass of combustible matter, and such indeed was the case.
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Twenty years ago a hapu, in number just forty persons, removed their kainga from a dry, healthy position, to the edge of a raupo swamp.
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The elastic wall of raupo closed again around his neck; the tapu was fairly beaten!
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The elastic wall of raupo closed again around his neck; and the tapu was fairly beaten!
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We may easily imagine that a hill of this kind, covered from bottom to top with houses thatched and built of reeds, rushes, and raupo, would be a mere mass of combustible matter; and such indeed was the case.
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