huin.
/ˈhuːi/ In New Zealand, a large social or ceremonial gathering; in Hawaii, a formal club or association.
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society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun]
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club
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1858 J. Morgan Let. 21 June in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 408 The hui at Rangiaohia to promote the Maori King movement broke up.
1898 M. H. Krout Hawaii 18 Those present, with forty members of a royalist society called Hui Kalaiaina, marched to the palace.
1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira x. 81 The large huis—gatherings—of the Heretaunga people.
1948 R. S. Kuykendall & A. G. Day Hawaii xxv. 274 The enterprise of oriental business men was strengthened by the local practice of forming a hui, the Hawaiian name for an informal syndicate which enables Chinese or Japanese members to take great advantage of a business opportunity.
1954 J. Sheridan in Ellery Queen's Mystery Mag. Oct. 15/2 Our fishing hui's beginning to pay.
1959 M. Shadbolt New Zealanders 20 I mean it's common knowledge about what happens at the pa when there's a big hui. There's always too much liquor there, and the boys and girls mix freely.
1960 N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. vii. 220 We'll have fowls. Go to all the huis.
1973 Parade (Austral.) Sept. 11/1 The Maori custom of steeping the grain in water until it was half-rotten, and then serving it up as a special dish at a tribal hui.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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