kāhui ariki
1. (noun) aristocracy, royal family of the Kīngitanga (usually defined as the descendants of Tāwhiao).
Ko Raiha Ratete tōna whaea. He wahine nō te kāhui ariki o tērā manawapū o Te Arawa, nō Ngāti Whakaue (TTR 1996:2). / Eliza Rogers was his mother. She was a woman of the aristocracy of the Ngāti Whakaue section of Te Arawa.
