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ipu wai ʻauʻau

/ ipu wai ʻau.ʻau / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n., Washbasin. Figuratively, chiefs' genealogists who were supposed to keep the characters of their masters clean.

Nā LepiliTags: epithets chiefs

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Washbowl. This was an epithet applied to those who washed or kept clean the genealogies of the chiefs, thus keeping their lives and reputations unsullied.

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