The Fijian people have a centuries-old tradition of setting aside no-fishing areas, called tabu areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation International - Feature Articles] Reference

The expression "tabu," he says, "which plays so great a part in the language of this people, has a very wide significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Nor dared Zalu Zako break the tabu placed by Bakahenzie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

There is no end and nearly nothing tabu in what is said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linda Keenan: Why My Femi-Friends Won't Vote for Sen. Clinton] Reference

In solemn chant the witnesses repeated, "These are tabu!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

The Semitic tribes were haunted with the fear of the tabu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Fires and so disposed of any agent outside the tabu or craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

It is tabu to touch you, except during the courtship seasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

Rez, while not exactly a tabu subject, was not a comfortable one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Dancer]

At some seasons, even the ocean itself was tabu, on pain of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

It was absolutely tabu: it was never, under any circumstance, uttered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Lensman]

Little children, not affected by the tabu, say: "De oppe soep was rood".    From Wordnik.com.  [Disproving a particular translation of TLE 193 once and for all] Reference

Just as the "N" word is tabu; I am waiting for the F-Bomb to become tabu.    From Wordnik.com.  [McDonnell drops F-bomb in live interview] Reference

It was my second experience with being somehow tabu, and I didn't like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door Through Space] Reference

I would say AARP has been pretty successful in representing its members. tabu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lobbying for Your Health: 150,000 seniors in revolt] Reference

Ignoring tabu, the girls grabbed Gren and ran with him back to the rest of the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

Is there any parliamentary way we can refuse the Minnesota GOP any additional time to speak? tabu.    From Wordnik.com.  [MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'] Reference

His father, aware of the tabu his family had broken, rose haltingly with the boy still in his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

The terror of the tabu, of the power of the Unmentionable One, was more overwhelming than his fear of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

The days of the moon, the turning of the season and the planting of crops were all placed under tabu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

The tabu seems to have arisen originally because the pig was a sacred animal identified with the Great.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

Jury and Ivin soon brought her food, setting not so much as a finger inside her home, that being tabu.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

Then Tupuna blessed them with long prayers of fertility, ending with his own warning: "These are tabu!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Sure, I know the accepted explanation, but I think we should learn why it works and how to break a tabu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lani People] Reference

tabu was the temple, tabu were the rock-gods, tabu was the hair of Pere, tabu was the growing coconut tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Sexwork is still very much a tabu-thing and people are still not accustomed to talk about it in a natural way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relevancy of Client Status « Bound, Not Gagged] Reference

Had he not paid seven tusks of good ivory to have the object of his passion placed under the most terrible tabu?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference

B covers animals, including totemism; then C moves on to tabu; and D, the largest category, is consecrated to magic.    From Wordnik.com.  [MOTIF] Reference

High-civil servants now publicly express their views towards market-driven reforms in the state utilities, once a tabu in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

In other words, who does a better vote tabu -- a better job tabulating the vote and who reports their numbers earlier in the evening?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2008] Reference

The netting of the tabu had been tangled by the death of the King-God, Kawa Kendi, and the unprecedented act of the overthrow of the idol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witch-Doctors] Reference