bora

noun2

1. •
   A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.

   • When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town? — 2006
2. •
   An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.

   • Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora. — 1873

noun[plural only]1

1. •
   An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon.