Definitions
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- adjective Of a family of
Australian Aboriginal languages of Western Australia.
Etymologies
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Examples
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People might name him anything they wished, but he was what he was, and he would with the aid of the Merciful One accomplish what he had come here for: Find Hari, or Hari's bones, and return them to Kartu.
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"In Kartu, people who see ghosts are burned as witches or banished from town, which is the same as being burned, because you'll die anyway."
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He might never come back, and she would be alone, pregnant, abandoned in a foreign land, the very thing she had feared most when she left Kartu.
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In Kartu, they had laughed at her appetite for tales.
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He had that interesting nose, which none of the other Qin had; they had blunter, shorter noses, more like those of Kartu people.
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He had taken their politeness for companionship before, having known so little companionship in Kartu.
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In Kartu, a married woman must be prudent in how she walked about town, lest gossip destroy her reputation.
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Mai blushed, not liking to look stupid; it was the worst thing people had said of her in Kartu.
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That means it's likely that the commander of Kartu knew of the treaty, and knew that the emperor was now our ally.
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The council met only when the rulers of Kartu called in the leading men of the town to inform them of new regulations to be implemented.
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