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- noun Plural form of
bunya .
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Examples
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As the bridal party came down the avenue of bunyas, and the band played the Wedding Chorus from Lohengrin a feeling of dream-like incongruity came over Bridget.
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At the Dewallee festival every servant of the Company, from the Governor to the youngest writer, received a 'peshcush' from the brokers and bunyas, which to the younger men were of much importance; as they depended on these gifts to procure their annual supply of clothes.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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