koori

1. (Australian Aboriginal, chiefly Victoria, New South Wales) An indigenous Australian.Examples: "C. S. of Stawell wrote to ‘point out some facts associated with Aboriginal myths of Dreamtime’. He denied a Koori presence (‘no Aboriginals ever entered the Grampians due to evil spirits’) and repeated a dominant pioneer folk myth that the rock-art was painted by ‘a French artist who had a great appreciation of Aboriginal art of central Australia’."; "Stories from the Koori oral tradition show how differently the shared experience is perceived by indigenous and settler Australians."; "Reliable population figures do not exist, but it [is] likely there were never large numbers: perhaps 18000 to 20000 Kooris across Victoria, perhaps 700 Wathaurong."New-South-Wales