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- noun A
semicircular Aboriginal dwelling , intended as atemporary shelter from theheat of thesun .
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Examples
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She ended her life living on the same old bed under her tarpaulin wiltja in Utopia.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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She ended her life living on the same old bed under her tarpaulin wiltja in Utopia.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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We found Mary Kemarre sitting in her wiltja on a big bed supported on a rusting roof rack raised on ten-gallon oil drums and wheel hubs.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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We found Mary Kemarre sitting in her wiltja on a big bed supported on a rusting roof rack raised on ten-gallon oil drums and wheel hubs.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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My ash bower is a kind of folly, an Aboriginal wiltja that stands at the top of my long meadow in Suffolk.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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My ash bower is a kind of folly, an Aboriginal wiltja that stands at the top of my long meadow in Suffolk.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I was rolled up inside a canvas swag, sleeping out on Latz’s old iron bed frame under a wiltja, a rough open-sided shelter he had thatched with the dried brushwood of mulga bushes supported on four posts.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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There had been photographs on Latz’s kitchen wall of Wolseley in wide-brimmed Akubra and cotton jacket, seated on a canvas chair at an easel outside a wiltja of canvas sheeting stretched from a mulga bush.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Or the one that sheltered the puppies beneath Mary Kemarre’s wiltja on the bush-plum hunt.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Or the one that sheltered the puppies beneath Mary Kemarre’s wiltja on the bush-plum hunt.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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