uta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of uta
< New Latin, probably Latinization of Ute
Example Sentences
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When they finished, Kubota explained how shima uta worked.
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
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
Their accounts are kept in the following manner: 10 pecoos are a laxsau, 10 laxsaus a cattee, 10 cattees an uta, and 10 utas a bahar.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
There is an exquisite Japanese iris-flower, of rainbow-violet colour, which flower is named kaki- tsubata; and there is a song about that flower called kaki-tsubata-no- uta.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
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