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Mia mia

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo and the Shire of Mitchell, central Victoria, Australia
Noun
  1. 1
    An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya. Australia

    "1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, page 391, On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a narrow track along which the escort must defile."

Etymology

Borrowed from Kurnai mai-mai or Wathaurong [Term?].

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