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Definition of Lubra
1. an Aboriginal woman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lubra
Literary usage of Lubra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australian Poets, 1788-1888: Being a Selection of Poems Upon All Subjects by Arthur Patchett Martin (1890)
"lubra. Ouns was the land, all ours, mine and my people's : the tribes, To roam
at will, to dwell, to hunt and to fish in, We were the lords of the soil, ..."
2. Social Life and Manners in Australia: Being the Notes of Eight Years' Experience by Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye (1861)
"RESCUE OF THE BEAUTIFUL lubra. AN ILL-ASSORTED MARRIAGE. — TOO FINE FOR BUSH LIFE.
NOTHING particular had occurred at Castlemaine for ..."
3. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"The elder sister has been meanwhile supplying the lubra with vegetable food, ...
On his return the father brings his supply of meat to the lubra's camp ..."
4. The United Service (1904)
"I know the flour and the bully tin point his way, but there's his lubra, ...
"In such country as we've had, it would be difficult to tell a lubra's track ..."
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