pureitanga
1. (loan) (noun) playing, game, event.
Heoi pai atu te pureitanga kāore he kakari, ā wini ana i a Moawhango taua purei (TJ 2/2/1899:10). / However good the playing was, that game wasn’t a battle, and Moawhango won.
Synonyms: tangihanga
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