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raupo

/ rɑːuːpɒ /

noun

  1. a New Zealand bulrush, Typha orientalis , with sword-shaped leaves, traditionally used for construction and decoration
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of raupo1

Māori
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Example Sentences

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

The bells were chiefly musket barrels, and they hung in actual raupo chapels built by Maori hands!

They put him into a raupo hut by himself, and fastened the door—a proceeding that did not at all tend to elevate his spirits.

The place was a network of trenches with connecting passages, roofed over with timber, raupo, and toetoe reeds and earth.

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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