(in Aboriginal English) a gathering during which Aboriginal mourning rituals are observed.
sorry camps had sprung up, with mourners from as far as Papunya
I had to go to sorry camp and sit down and wail for this beautiful old man
Example sentencesExamples
- Increasing amounts of goods are stored in the sorry camp where the key mourners sleep and live.
- A further death had resulted in the establishment of a 'sorry' camp some distance to the south.
- What is going on in the sorry camps is a deep mourning that is impossible for outsiders to really understand.
- The township in recent weeks had become a place of 'sorry camps' and funerals.
- Warlpiri people were consistently adamant that their 'sorry camps' be shielded from the view of visiting cameras.
- The study is concerning ritualized mourning and the pervading presence of multifaceted sorry camps.
- When someone passes away here people go into sorry camp.
- Nora said she was still in sorry camp.