karahi dreadlock

Part of Speech n3
    • dreadlock
      • body & health
      • culture
      • Comment During the initiation period young men's hair is not cut or trimmed, but kept hidden in the upee hat, so that it grows long and becomes 'karahi'. Older women also let their hair grow long in the Rastafarian style during a mourning period, which can last one or two years
      • Example 3016:
        Mea oraa bona vue to paku riori bona maa karahi vai vaa tea tobara upee momohu roho, ...
        It is this particular demon that they make from the dreadlocks from the upee boys group before, ...
        Source: San 03R 121-122
      • Example 3017:
        o karahi tea maa upee vai to tii bata me riori.
        the dreadlocks of the upee boys who have them.
        Source: San 03R 172-173

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