Some birds were tabued on account of their feathers; one especially, a black bird which has a small yellow feather under each wing.
One variety of taro, which makes poi of a pink color, was tabued and reserved for the chiefs.
She had a female priesthood, and men were perhaps excluded from her cult, as the tabued shrine at Kildare suggests.
This is a true Elysian note, and the tabued door of the story is also suggestive of the tabus of Elysium, which when broken rob men of happiness.
The elder eats some tabued food, and wakes from his sleep to find that he is changing into a great rattlesnake, the change beginning at his feet.
Sassafras is tabued as fuel among the Cherokee, as also among their white neighbors, perhaps for the practical reason that it is apt to pop out of the fire when heated and might thus set the house on fire.
The smaller varieties are sometimes eaten, and on rare occasions the bullfrog also, but the meat is tabued to ball players while in training, for fear that the brittleness of the frog's bones would be imparted to those of the player.
The meat of the sluggish hog-sucker is tabuedto the ball player, who must necessarily be active in movement.
It is an archaic word of the same significance, used only in this connection with the tabued name-giving object of the kin.
The names of the Australian matrimonial classes appear to be tabued or archaic names of animals and other objects, as we have shown that some phratry names also are.
She wore no jewels, as she clung to the rigorous law of her youth which had tabued the vulgar display of anything but pearls in the daytime.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tabued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
