Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tatou .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
tatou .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
tatou .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun about three feet long exclusive of tail
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Examples
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Finally, nothing pisses me off more than to hear people who are UTTERLY FUCKING IGNORANT of the millennia-old tradition of tatu, tattooing, and the symbolism behind thousands of ethnic histories and stories told in skin ink.
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Ko rin ang aking butas ang dila at higit sa 30 oras ng tatu tinta sa aking katawan.
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If we see any object which particularly pleases us, we go home and have it tatu-ed on our bodiesbut if other people envy us, and want to make incisions like ours, we do not reveal where we have seen the objectfor the spirit ... of the thing remains with her who has made a representation of it on her body.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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January 24, 2006 at 01:22 PM prussian blue r bad but tatu r just the same. the only difference is that these r racist + tatu are ppl who pretend 2 b lesbians. whoever samantha is she needs to get her head checked cos there both bloody terrible
t.A.T.u. - Lesbianism + White Power x Twin Blondes = Prussian Blue 2005
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Aw and they're called PuffyAmiYumi They remind me of tatu and Avril combined.
clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2004
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To be honest my money was on either the Greek power ballad or tatu (but they ruined their chances by (a) being deeply nervous and singing out of key and (b) not offering the first lesbian kiss on Eurovision).
Archive 2003-05-25 2003
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He made out first the crude picture of a shark with huge gaping jaws struggling under the weight of a ship's anchor, and then, directly under this pigment colored tatu, the almost invisible letters of a name.
The Golden Snare James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Tewang Rongkang, the only one I saw with tatu marks on the knees.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Disease, cure of, by natives; caused by malicious anto; tatu marks to prevent; natives 'fondness for white man's remedies for; skin
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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Stars, native belief concerning; tatu-marks representing; rice-planting season determined by
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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