raupo

/ rɑːuːpɒ /

noun

1. a New Zealand bulrush, Typha orientalis , with sword-shaped leaves, traditionally used for construction and decoration

Word History and Origins

Origin of raupo¹

Māori

Example Sentences

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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My house was a good commodious raupo building; and as I had a princely income of a few hundred a year "in trade," I kept house in a very magnificent and hospitable style.

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The elastic wall of raupo closed again around his neck; the tapu was fairly beaten!

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He ran to the back of the house, made with some difficulty a hole in the padded raupo wall, and squeezed his head through it.

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