paepae

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

One of the most distinguished authors, who has chosen that delectable clime for his researches was arrested for napping on his own _paepae_ partly clothed.

Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915

That afternoon while Neo and I lay on my _paepae_ awaiting the favoring wind which should carry him back to his own isle, my neighbors gathered from far and near to lounge the sunny hours away in conversation.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Pressing on, hampered by my clinging garments and slipping in the path that had instantly become a miniature torrent, I came upon a little clearing in which stood a dirty, dark shanty, like a hovel in the outskirts of Canton, not raised on a _paepae_ but squat in an acre of mud and the filth of years.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

The crash of a falling cocoanut awakened me at midnight, and I saw on my _paepae_ Apporo, Flower, Water, and Chief Kekela

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Early in the mornings I called "Kaoha!" from my _paepae_ to

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Often across the worn stones of the _paepae_ stole a _vei_, a centipede, upon which a bare foot quickly stamped.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

The most pretentious in the village, it consisted of two rooms, built of redwood boards from California, white-washed, clean, and bare, opening through wide doors upon the broad _paepae_.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

A laughing Juno of thirty years, large and rounded as a breadfruit-tree, more than six feet in height, with a mass of blue-black hair and teeth that flashed white as a fresh-opened cocoanut, she rose from her mat on the _paepae_ and rubbed my nose ceremoniously with hers.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

It was erected upon a _paepae_ about ten feet high, reached by a broad and smooth stairway of similar massive black rocks.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900