brolga
English
Etymology
From Gamilaraay burralga.
Noun
brolga (plural brolgas)
- A large grey crane, Grus rubicunda, of northern and eastern Australia. [from 19th c.]
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 90, :
- But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […] .
- 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241:
- We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 90, :
Synonyms
- Australian crane
- native companion
Translations
an Australian crane
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Further reading
brolga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Grus rubicunda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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