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Definition of the day : « hara-kiri »

  • noun ritual suicide
Example sentences :
  • He was attending a lesson in hara-kiri taken by his young son.
  • Extract from : « The Usurper » by Judith Gautier
  • The hara-kiri was of course a last resort, but it was an honorable death.
  • Extract from : « Japanese Girls and Women » by Alice Mabel Bacon
  • So it was not without cause that they were taught at school the hara-kiri.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 » by Various
  • The performance of hara-kiri carried with it certain privileges.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 » by Various
  • I seemed fully to sympathize with the Japanese view of hara-kiri.
  • Extract from : « Adrift on an Ice-Pan » by Wilfred T. Grenfell
  • After some days the boy died, and Kujuro was condemned to hara-kiri.
  • Extract from : « Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic » by Sidney L. Gulick
  • In old days the ceremony of hara-kiri used to be performed in a temple.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Old Japan » by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
  • The ceremonies observed at the "hara-kiri" of a Daimio's retainer.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Old Japan » by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
  • To boys there is given special training in the hara-kiri, or the art of ripping one's self up.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 » by Various
  • Hara-kiri is hara-kiri, and the private performance is even more ghastly than the official one.
  • Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling