tahiti has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin

Used in print

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

To many_a Frenchman - they came 95 years ago , colonized , and stayed until Laos became independent in 1953 - the land had been even more delightfully tranquil than Tahiti .

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