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corroboree
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corroboree \Cor*rob"o*ree`\, n. [Also corrobboree, corrobori, etc.] [Native name.] A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women ...
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Corroboree is a ballet written by Australian composer John Antill in the early 1940s. The first full version of the score was completed in 1944 and it was first performed as a concert suite in 1946. On 3 July 1950 it was performed as a ballet, at the Empire ...
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n. 1 A nocturnal dance held by Australian Aborigines, for social, celebratory or warlike purposes. 2 A song or chant made for such a festivity. 3 Any noisy, late-night gathering or disturbance.
Usage examples of corroboree.
No white man ever saw a real corroboree, unless by accident, or more likely, stealth, and perhaps the aborigines were too finished in their bushcraft to allow that ever to happen.
For three days he dwelt in the good land with content, lionised by his relatives, taking part in the hunts, the feasts, the corroborees, and being urged never to return to the camp of floods and hunger.
The Royal York was the scene of a Better Roads corroboree, and in the Gentleman's Powder Room I was accosted by a young rustic who had apparently been attending a committee-meeting in a beverage room.
Alice Springs, Australia: hospitals here are overwhelmed with disconsolate abos who had been misled by fanatical preacher Napoleon Boggs into believing that they could obtain white-skinned babies on request, according to a claim he made at a recent corroboree.