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单词 wharepuni
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wharepuni

/ˌfɑːrɛˈpuːni/
noun (plural wharepunis or same) NZ
A building in which a Maori family lives and sleeps: it was a superior wharepuni in which a high ranking person and his family lived...
  • He was brought up in the bush, pig hunting with his father, where they would build small wharepuni to stay in for days at a time
  • Pictured is a Maori family outside a whare puni near Masterton.
  • Their dwellings were rectangular in shape and resembled those of their former homes in Polynesia, and this basic form became the wharepuni.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Maori whare 'house' + puni 'group, company'.

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