Definitions

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  • noun A semicircular Aboriginal dwelling, intended as a temporary shelter from the heat of the sun.

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Examples

  • She ended her life living on the same old bed under her tarpaulin wiltja in Utopia.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • She ended her life living on the same old bed under her tarpaulin wiltja in Utopia.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Or the one that sheltered the puppies beneath Mary Kemarre’s wiltja on the bush-plum hunt.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • 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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