bora ground
noun1
Australia A sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.
- 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
- [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: