mo'ai
Rapa Nui
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- Statue, statuette (especially one of the large stone statues on Easter Island).
- 1995, Veronica de Feu, Rapanui: A Descriptive Grammar[1], page 153:
- Ko tikea 'a e au te moai nui nui ...
- I have seen a big statue.