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Meanings of tabu in English

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Usage of tabu in English
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Another tabu of the Navaho is his fear of seeing his mother-in-law.
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2
Some of the party on shore had persuaded women to break the tabu.
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An aura of emotion surrounded everything-ofterror, of tabu, of fascination, of desire.
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This tabu on labour has a further consequence in the industrial differentiation of classes.
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The higher schools and the learned professions were until recently tabu to the women.
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The whole idea was a phase of totemism and tabu.
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There were other resemblances between Maori tabu and Hindoo caste-custom.
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They have made sickness not only tabu, but invalidism ridiculous.
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9
It was my second experience with being somehow tabu, and I didn't like it.
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But we have gotten thus far: that the man who cheats in trade is tabu.
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This proceeding is called násam, and the pemáli (tabu) is now all over.
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As always, the main tabu is on the woman.
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He who violated a tabu was at once killed.
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No hand was lifted to avert his fate, for he was tabu to the gods.
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Yet would Mungongo dare the tabu at his bidding?
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The Maoris had the tabu; and had it on a Polynesian scale of comprehensiveness and elaboration.
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