corroboree

[ kuh-rob-uh-ree ]

/ kəˈrɒb ə ri /

an assembly of Aborigines typified by singing and dancing, sometimes associated with traditional sacred rites.

a social gathering, especially of a boisterous nature.

Origin of corroboree

First recorded in 1793, corroboree is from the Dharuk word ga-ra-ba-ra dance

The Corroboree began after dark, and the men shouted, danced, and carried on a mimic war to the glare of blazing bonfires.

Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life |Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
The two factors upon which the later drama depends may be detected even in the corroboree of the Australians.

Elements of Folk Psychology |Wilhelm Wundt
And we plan a corroboree at the colony after the Warlock is down, when there will be some excellently practiced singing.

Sand Doom |William Fitzgerald Jenkins
This evening Fisherman and Jackey showed Wittin corroboree dance.

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria |William Landsborough

The crowd fled in the direction of the scene of their corroboree, but they did not stop there.

The Land of the Kangaroo |Thomas Wallace Knox

corroboree

/ (kəˈrɒbərɪ) /

a native assembly of sacred, festive, or warlike character

informal any noisy gathering

C19: from a native Australian language