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Example sentences from the Web for tangiA combat outpost in the Tangi Valley had proved so indefensible that U.S. forces abandoned it in April. The Taliban’s Bait Game|John Barry|August 12, 2011|DAILY BEAST They make the "tangi," or funeral, the occasion of a great feast. Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water|Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent As I approached the Pa before the funeral they all raised the native cry of welcome, the "Tangi." Life of John Coleridge Patteson|Charlotte M. Yonge Outside in the open was heard the clash of arms, plaintive wails and lamentations of the tangi for the dead. An Old New Zealander|T. Lindsay Buick
The bereaved man charged him with being a fraud, and, in the course of a quarrel, split his skull open with a tangi (axe). Omens and Superstitions of Southern India|Edgar Thurston The arms they carry are the bow, arrows, and tangi, a species of light battle-axe that inflicts a serious wound. Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar Thurston
noun plural -gis NZa Māori funeral ceremony informal a lamentation Word Origin for tangiMāori Words nearby tangitangentiality, tangential motion, tangent line, tangent plane, tangerine, tangi, tangible, Tangier, Tangier disease, Tangier Zone, tangka 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 |