bora ground

plural bora grounds

1. AustraliaA sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.First known use 19th c.

   They came here to the place of their old bora ground / Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.

   1964, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, ‘We Are Going’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 43

   1 more example

   [A] bora ground near Lake Barracoota on the Victorian and New South Wales border indicates that the area was a planned ceremonial grove.

   2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 139