(in Aboriginal English) religious practice and ritual.
the ceremony was strictly men's Sunday business in which they could not take part
Example sentencesExamples
- It occurs to me that P. is picked up by police while wandering with his mother, after they escape from the Sunday business.
- The women go off to 'dance', that is perform their secret corroboree, their 'Sunday business'.
- He reported that 'what the women thought' about Sunday Business 'did not matter' from the men's point of view.
- 'Proper dead-fellow place,' Bilemu explained to me, 'old-time blackfellow all-time go there for big-Sunday business.'
- If you had a private fist fight straight out that's a bit better than this bloody Sunday business.