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Tahitian

noun
1.
A native or inhabitant of Tahiti.
2.
The Oceanic language spoken on Tahiti.





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"Tahitian" Quotes from Famous Books



... A Tahitian name for the tree which in Hawaii is called lehua, or ohia. In verse 3 the Hawaiian name ohia and the Tahitian laka (accented on the final syllable, thus distinguishing it from the name of the goddess Laka, with which it has no discoverable connection) are combined in one form ...
— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson
... surround myself with large photographs of these pictures of which a dozen years ago I was certainly quite incapable of perceiving the beauty. The best still-life studies of Cezanne seem to me to have the grandiose quality of epics. And that picture by Gauguin, showing the back of a Tahitian young man with a Tahitian girl on either side of him, is an affair which I regard with acute pleasure every morning. There are compositions by Vuillard which equally enchant me. Naturally I cannot accept the whole school—no more than the ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett


Words linked to "Tahitian" :   oceanic, Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Tahiti


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