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Tabu

adjective

Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands. Synonym: taboo.

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

Words linked to "Tabu" : impermissible, prejudice, Polynesia, preconception, sacred, prohibited, bias, inhibition, proscribed