What does gaba-gaba mean?

gaba-gaba

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

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"The houses were mostly well built, of wooden framework filled in with gaba-gaba (leaf-stems of the sago-palm), but as they had no whitewash, and the floors were of bare black earth like the roads, and generally on the same level, they were extremely damp and gloomy."

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