terii

Updated: May 8, 2025

If one wore it over the left ear, one sought a sweetheart; if over the right, it signified contentment, and though it was as common as the wearing of hats, there were always jokes passing about these flowers, exclamations of surprise or wishes of joy. "What, you have left Terii?" "Aita. No." "Aue! I must change it at once." Now, really there was no such idea in the native mind.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.