"ceremony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After Poongodi's puberty ceremony, she changes her behaviour and shows sympathy for Venu.
- Adolescent boys sought guardian spirits called tinihowi and both genders experienced puberty ceremonies.
- Even today, young Apache girls wear necklaces with scratching sticks and drinking tubes during their puberty ceremonies.
- A boy who "acted strangely" before he participated in the boy's puberty ceremonies in the Mohave tribe would be considered for the transvestite ceremony.
- Boys' puberty ceremonies involved nose-piercing, racing, and fasting.
- The puberty ceremonies were an occasion not only for temple honor, but also for community feasting and celebration in which the local elites also participated.
- When she came of age, she had the first puberty ceremony (kinaalda).
- Ruth Benedict, writing of puberty ceremonies in various societies, sheds some light on this seemingly paradoxical cultural attitude.
- A "puberty ceremony" was held when boys and girls reached a certain age, and at the conclusion of the procession the child was available for marriage.
- The Thirandukalyanam ceremony was the puberty ceremony, during which femininity is celebrated as women occupy the parts of the household typically inhabited by men.
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