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Answer for the clue "This cologne is off-limits? ", 4 letters:
tabu

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Usage examples of tabu.

Hither the manslayer, the man who had broken a tabu, or failed in the observance of its rigid requirements, the thief, and even the murderer, fled from his incensed pursuers, and was secure.

He did not risk his precious gore expnd0Or take a sporting chance in warpardAs English soldiers do:pardHe marched his bandsmen round the walls expnd0And knocked it down with bugle calls fi360A trick that is tabu.

No doubt she was a hostage, but knowing the fanatacism of natives when their tabu has been violated, Turk was sure that she would be of no use to Boling.

Tabu was the temple, Tabu were the rock-gods, Tabu was the hair of Pere, Tabu was the growing coconut tree.

Prayers, respect and observance of tabus had always been accorded all gods, but a master god like Oro merited supreme sacrifices like sharks and men.

In general, however, the tabus which were rigidly enforced on land had to be suspended aboard a crowded canoe.

Tupuna then enumerated more than five dozen additional tabus which protected the king in his suspension between the upper gods and the lower men: his spittle may not be touched.

He went, however, although to do so was one of his tabus, and he made peace between them.

That was one of Conaire's tabus, and that plunder should be taken in Ireland during his reign was another tabu of his.

There was, of course, the matter of riding herd on traders to see that they didn't cheat, beyond a reasonable limit, the aliens with whom they traded, of seeing that they violated no alien tabus and outraged no alien ethics, that they abided by certain restraints and observed minimum protocol, but that was routine policing —just ordinary chores.

Perhaps the perfumed air was enough to loosen the sexual tabus of the people of Nkumai.