bora ground

English

Noun

bora ground (plural bora grounds)

  1. A sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.
    • 1964, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, ‘We Are Going’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 43:
      They came here to the place of their old bora ground / Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.
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