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单词 koruru
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koruru

/ˈkɔːrʊrə /
noun (plural same) NZ
A carved mask fitted as a decoration on the gable peak of a Maori meeting house: a canopy was erected with four sets of koruru...
  • The founding ancestor after whom this meeting house is usually named is depicted by the koruru.
  • There was meant to be an ancestral figure up there, a proper koruru.
  • The koruru crowning the apex of the house is his head.

Origin

Late 19th century: Maori.

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