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Bara vs Bora - What's the difference?

bara | bora |

As nouns the difference between bara and bora

is that bara is a genre; homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan while bora is a initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.

bara

English

Usage notes

The term barazoku'' was once relatively more common in the Japanese gay community (the magazine ''Barazoku starting publication in 1971), but has long since gone out of fashion in Japan, having been replaced by terms like ). The term bara often contrasts with , which is gay male media usually made by heterosexual women to appeal to other heterosexual women. Whereas bara typically emphasizes masculine homoeroticism and frank explicit sexual situations, yaoi typically emphasizes the androgynous bishonen aesthetic and depicts emotional romantic relationships.

Noun

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  • (label) A genre; homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.
  • (label) Gay male media of a similar style and aesthetic, regardless of the creator's gender or ethnicity.
  • (label) Any homoerotic media or pornography that accentuates macho masculinity; gay porn.
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    bora

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * Bora

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
    • Synonyms
    * burbung

    Quotations

    * 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2 *: Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora . * 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14 *: By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora , at which youths are initiated to manhood...

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from a dialectal form of (etyl) .

    Noun

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  • A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 650:
    • When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

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