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Later he conducts a successful campaign in Hawaii, establishes Paepae against the rebel faction of Molokai, and pacifies Haloalena, who is rebelling against the king of Maui.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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_Paepae_ (pae-páe) -- a prop; a support; the assistant to the _po'o-pua'a_
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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Paepae signifies a floor or platform such as a native house is built on; and even such a paepae -- a paepae hae -- may be called a paepae tapu in a lesser sense when it is deserted and becomes the haunt of spirits; but the public high place, such as I was now treading, was a thing on a great scale.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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