raupo

/ (rɑːuːpɒ) /

a New Zealand bulrush, Typha orientalis, with sword-shaped leaves, traditionally used for construction and decoration

Word Origin for raupo

Māori

The place was a network of trenches with connecting passages, roofed over with timber, raupo, and toetoe reeds and earth.

The adventures of Kimble Bent |James Cowan
In a common Maori whare, built of raupo leaves and rushes, sits a dusky maiden, filled with bitterness and grief.

The Tale of Timber Town |Alfred Grace
The elastic wall of raupo closed again around his neck; and the tapu was fairly beaten!

Old New Zealand: |'A Pakeha Maori' [Frederick Edwa [Maning]
The elastic wall of raupo closed again around his neck; the tapu was fairly beaten!

Old New Zealand |Earl of Pembroke.

They put him into a raupo hut by himself, and fastened the door—a proceeding that did not at all tend to elevate his spirits.

The adventures of Kimble Bent |James Cowan