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plural Abors or Abor
(ethnography) A member of a people of northern Assam. quotations examples
No thatching grass is available, and so all the houses are thatched with a kind of plant called tara by the Abors, which is very like the tokopat used in many parts of Assam, but the lower stem of the tara is excessively thorny.
1886, Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, page 316