[Native Australian.] An aboriginal woman of Australia.
1841. Sydney Herald, 14 Dec., 2/7. Bob was first taken, and then the three lubras, one of whom was slightly wounded in the head.
1847. Capt. C. Sturt, Narr. Exped. Central Austral. (1849), I. 127. He [an aboriginal] placed his lubra and infant child in it [a canoe].
1864. Simcox, Outward Bound, 87. Many lubras so black, with their load on their back.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., I. 67. We white women are no better off than the lubras.
