See also: corroborée

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From Dharug garabara.

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corroboree (plural corroborees)

  1. A nocturnal dance held by Australian Aborigines, for social, celebratory or warlike purposes.
    • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 2005, page 231:
      A hundred yards or so away the throaty beat of a didgeridoo drifted down from some ancient corroboree, a splendid accompaniment to the music of the night
  2. A song or chant made for such a festivity.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IV, in Capricornia[1], page 52:
      He reached home, and lived long enough to hear the natives wailing in a Death Corroboree over his late comrade.
  3. Any noisy, late-night gathering or disturbance.

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