1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales
   "The young men participated in the traditional bora ceremony"
    
2. A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic
   "The bora wind made sailing conditions treacherous"

Derived forms: boras

Type of: air current, current of air, wind

Encyclopedia: Bora, India