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Tahitian

noun
1.
A native or inhabitant of Tahiti.
2.
The Oceanic language spoken on Tahiti.





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"Tahitian" Quotes from Famous Books



... opened out on a little clearing among the trees, and showed them, set on high, the out-lines of a native house. Like all Tahitian houses, it was on the model of a bird cage, and the oval wall of bamboos, set side by side, let through vertical streaks of light from the lamp or fire within. As the whole party drew nearer, they heard, deep ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne
... Now Tahitian customs were very like those of Hawaii at that time, in that the Tahitians offered human sacrifices when a canoe or a heiau was in process of construction. How the observance of this custom caused the flight of Paoa to ...
— Legends of Wailuku • Charlotte Hapai
... different races. Nineteen able labourers are all the trader at Taiohae can muster for the loading of copra on shipboard, and in their veins runs the blood of English, American, Dane, German, French, Corsican, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Hawaiian, Paumotan, Tahitian, and Easter Islander. There are more races than there are persons, but it is a wreckage of races at best. Life faints and stumbles and gasps itself away. In this warm, equable clime—a truly terrestrial paradise—where ...
— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London


Words linked to "Tahitian" :   Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, oceanic, Tahiti, Polynesian


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