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luau
luau
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Performers at a commercial luau
Noun
luau (plural luaus or luau)
- An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
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2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, p. 13:
- Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.
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2014, Mike Myers, The Guardian, 7 July 2014:
- No secrets for him because he's the king of Hawaii. And so he said, "Do you want to come to a luau with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Whoopi Goldberg?"
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2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press 2012, p. 13:
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References
- Pukui, Mary Kawena; Samuel H. Elbert (1986), Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, ISBN 0-8248-0703-0, p. 214