Wilgie

Quick meaning: Wilgie is a noun meaning (Australia, chiefly Western Australia) A red ochre traditionally used as a pigment by the Aboriginal Nyunga people.

Meaning

(Australia, chiefly Western Australia) A red ochre traditionally used as a pigment by the Aboriginal Nyunga people.

Example Sentences

While she was working Coomal came along with wilgie on his face and embraced her.

A picture of one mourning for her brother shows her hair all screwed up in little knobs with wilgie clay and fat.

[…] round these fires were squatted the dark forms of men and women, unclad, save with the loose folds of an opossum rug, and unadorned save with a fish or other bone thrust through the cartilage of the nose, or the pendulums of the ears, and with wilgie and with paint.

Word Forms

• wilgee
• wilgi

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