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ngangao

1. (verb) to be ornamented with the markings of a toki.

Ko te wahine nāna i hari mai te toki pounamu, hei taratarai atu i te poupou, kia ngangao ai (M 2005:436). / It was a woman who brought the greenstone adze to fashion the wall-pillars, to dress them with the markings of the toki.

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