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1. ahu, n. View full entry 1917
...In Eastern Polynesia: a raised platform or mound; esp. a platform of earth or stone used as a memorial or (as on Easter Island) as a support for stone statues....
2. dalang, n. View full entry 1817
...The central performer who recites the story and manipulates the puppets in Indonesian and Malaysian shadow-play (see also quot. 1817)....
3. dangdut, n. View full entry 1979
...A style of popular music, originating in Indonesia, which combines Arab and Malay folk elements with contemporary international musical styles, and is characterized by a pulsing dance rhythm and populist lyrics. Freq....
4. gamelan, n. View full entry 1817
...A type of orchestra common in the East Indies, esp. in Java, consisting mainly of percussion instruments with some woodwind and string ones. Also transf. and attrib....
5. gong, n.2 View full entry c1600
...A metallic disk with upturned rim (usually made of an alloy composed of four parts copper to one of tin) which produces resonant musical notes when suspended and struck with a soft...
6. ˈgong-ˌgong, n. View full entry 1771
...Any of various musical instruments of percussion, of China, West Africa, etc....
7. gum-gum, n. View full entry 1700
...A hollow iron bowl, which is struck with an iron or wooden stick; a series of the same, varying in size and tone....
8. haka, n. View full entry 1832
...A Maori ceremonial posture dance accompanied by chanting; one danced by members of a sports team, etc....
9. hikayat, n. View full entry 1808
...In classical Malay literature, a prose narrative combining romance and biography....
10. hula, n. View full entry 1825
...An Hawaiian dance, with six basic steps, which portrays through symbolic and imitative gestures natural phenomena, sports, and historical or mythological subjects....
11. Japan, n. View full entry 1577
...The name of an island nation (formerly an empire) situated off the east coast of Asia....
12. joget, n. View full entry 1895
...A Malay popular dance, in which a couple improvises to the accompanying music. Also attrib., and transf., the place where such dancing occurs....
13. ketjak, n. View full entry 1937
...A Balinese dance, with a male chorus. Also attrib....
14. koru, n. View full entry 1938
...A common motif in Maori carving and tattooing, consisting of a spiral pattern terminating in a bulb....
15. koruru, n. View full entry 1897
...A wooden carving of a man's head, esp. one placed on the gable of a house....
16. legong, n. View full entry 1926
...A stylized Balinese dance performed by young girls. Also attrib. Also, one of the performers of such a dance....
17. pantun, n. View full entry 1783
...A Malay verse form consisting of quatrains with an ‘abab’ rhyme scheme in which the meaning of the first couplet usually makes only indirect allusion to that of the second couplet, and...
18. pelog, n. View full entry 1817
...The heptatonic scale used in Javanese (esp. gamelan) music, and also in Sundanese music....
19. poi, n.2 View full entry 1817
...A small, light ball, usually made of leaves and fibre, attached to a string; (also) a dance traditionally performed by Maori women and girls which involves the rhythmic swinging of such a...
20. ronggeng, n. View full entry 1817
...In Malaysia: a dancing girl; a female professional dancer who performs with a ronggeng troupe (see sense 2)....
