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lubras

lubras is the plural of lubra.

Meaning of lubra

Noun

lubra (plural lubras)

  1. (Australia, ethnic, slur, now racially offensive) A female Aboriginal Australian.
    • At about 100 yards distant I saw a large fire and it immediaterly occurred to me that his wife was dead and that the fire was the funeral pile of his deceased wife. I asked him where his lubra was and he said lubra logerna unee (dead in the fire).1829, George Augustus Robinson, Friendly Mission, page 61

Questions about lubras

What is lubras the plural of?
Lubras is the plural of lubra.

Words near lubras in the dictionary

  1. Lubon
  2. Lubong
  3. lubra
  4. Lubrano
  5. Lubranos
  6. lubras
  7. lubratoria
  8. lubratorium
  9. lubratoriums
  10. lubric
  11. lubrical

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