Definition of "taboos" []

• Plural form of taboo. (noun)

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• "Considering her literary beginnings as a black woman writer who came out of the block breaking taboos, is it any surprise that thirty years and twenty-two books later, Walker, one of the most censored writers in the U.S., still gets people upset?"
• "There are, after all, certain taboos in recent French historiography as well: treatment of their opponents in Algiers, for instance, or the treatment of North Africans in France; the ruthless massacre of peaceful demonstrators in Paris; and other suchlike interesting events."
• "People skirting around old issues and taboos is EXACTLY what makes them taboos in the first place."