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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ta·boo a. [Written also tabu and tapu.]  Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.