brolga
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Gamilaraay burralga.
Noun
[edit]brolga (plural brolgas)
- A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia. [from 19th c.]
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia[1], page 90:
- But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […] .
- 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241:
- We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an Australian crane
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Further reading
[edit]- brolga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Antigone rubicunda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams
[edit]Australian Kriol
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