whare

Definition

A Maori house or other building.

Etymology

Borrowed from Māori whare (“house, hut”).

Example Sentences

• "The dwellings of the chiefs are surrounded with enclosures of pole-fences; and the Whares and Wharepunis, some of them exhibiting very fine specimens of the Maori order of architecture, are ornamented with grotesque wood-carvings."
• "We were on the brow of the hill, and below us there was a whare roofed in with corrugated iron."
• "At the far end of the whare there's a wooden bed."