uta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of uta
< New Latin, probably Latinization of Ute
Example Sentences
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Rainbow-colored billboards and sidewalk placards advertise places to hear live music; from every direction shima uta spills onto the sidewalks.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012
Oshiro, 76, is a legendary singer of shima uta, songs of the Ryukyu Islands, as Okinawa is also known.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012
When they finished, Kubota explained how shima uta worked.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012
One sentence, frequently repeated towards the close of the effusion, was "linyama uta," "flesh of the bow," showing that the Pythoness loved venison killed by the bow.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace
The uta is a sort of cancer, and it is more fearful in its consequences than the verugas.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
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