tangi
Britishnoun
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a Māori funeral ceremony
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informal a lamentation
Etymology
Origin of tangi
Māori
Example Sentences
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The tangi is a Māori death rite that involves close and extended family remaining with the dead for three days to mourn and honour them.
From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2017
They had come up the tangi in the early morning and she had been entranced with the vastness of the huge narrow chasm, the first of its kind she had ever seen.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
We are in a sort of tangi, only it is closed at one end.
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
See a description of a tangi further on.
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Maori, A Pakeha
They had been descending all the time, and now it took a little longer, for the floor of the tangi was stony and rough.
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Mitford, Bertram
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