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Definition of tombstone opening in English: tombstone openingnoun Australian (in the Torres Strait Islands) a ceremony held to mark the unveiling of a gravestone. a tombstone opening brings together kin who may normally live scattered all over Australia Example sentencesExamples - Most tombstone openings cost no more than $4,000, but it is estimated that one recent event cost more than $30,000.
- She was pestering me to go and film the tombstone opening, so I got a crew together.
- When a significant person in the community dies, the family begins saving for the tombstone opening.
- Tombstone openings are an element of continuity today in a constantly changing world.
- At tombstone openings Islanders appear as one, united by their Custom and their kinship.
- Many individuals were found to engage in 'temporary' entrepreneurship to raise extra money for one-off cultural events like tombstone openings, weddings, sporting carnivals, and concerts.
- Perhaps the most universal and powerful reminder today of the continued existence of the old spirituality is the tombstone opening.
- In recent years, some tombstone openings in the home islands have assumed the status of major cultural events.
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