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Tabu

noun
1.
A prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature.  Synonym: taboo.
2.
An inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.  Synonym: taboo.
adjective
1.
Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands.  Synonym: taboo.
2.
Excluded from use or mention.  Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, verboten.  "In our house dancing and playing cards were out" , "A taboo subject"





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"Tabu" Quotes from Famous Books



... meaning "cowry". This fact seems to have played some part in fixing upon the pig the notoriety of being "an unclean animal".[425] But it was mainly for other reasons of a very different kind that the eating of swine-flesh was forbidden. The tabu seems to have arisen originally because the pig was a sacred animal identified with the Great Mother and the Water God, and especially associated with both these deities ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith


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