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▪ I. ‖ bora1|ˈbɔəra|
[According to Diez, Venetian, Milanese form of It. borea north wind:—L. Boreas. But cf. Illyrian (Serbia, Dalmatia, etc.) bura ‘storm, tempest’ (Bulg. bura, Russ. and OSlav. burya), which may have been confounded with the Ital. in the Adriatic.]
A severe north wind which blows in the Upper Adriatic.
1864Visc'tess Strangford E. Shores Adriatic 263 A violent wind began to blow. ‘The Bora! the Bora!’ resounded on all sides, in tones of terror and dismay. 1883Athenæum 6 Jan. 11/1 Capt. Burton left Trieste..too happy to exchange its ferocious bora and distressing scirocco for the..West African coast.
▪ II. bora3|ˈbɔərə|
Also borah.
[Aboriginal Australian.]
A rite amongst the Aborigines of eastern Australia, constituting the admission of a young person to the rights of manhood.
1866W. Ridley Kamilaroi 17 Kubura, young man who has attended a bora. 1883J. Fraser Aborigines of N.S. Wales 12 This assembly—the most solemn and unique in the tribal life—is called the Bora and sometimes the Kobbora. Ibid. 17 The inner Bora customs. 1885Mrs. C. Praed Austral. Life 24 The great mystery of the Blacks is the Bora—a ceremony at which the young men found worthy receive the rank of warriors. 1948V. Palmer Golconda xiii. 104 The white-haired maker of corroborees..holding forth to the young men about the need to bring back the borah and all the ancient rites of the tribe. 1953J. McLaren in I. Bevan Sunburnt Country ii. ii. 72 The ‘Bora’ ceremonies of initiation are held in some secluded part of the bush, and have rarely been seen by whites. |