| 单词 | medicine lodge |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmedicine lodge medicine lodge n. (a) a structure used for religious ceremonies by certain North American Indian peoples; a ceremony held in such a structure; (b) a religious society among these peoples. ΚΠ 1808 C. Mackenzie in L. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1889) 1st Ser. 354 The women were directed to go into the woods for branches to cover the Medecine lodge. 1901 F. H. Giddings Inductive Sociol. 207 Religious Societies—..In North American Indian tribes, they are known as Medicine Lodges. 1947 Westerners' Brand Bk. (Denver Posse) 27 The Indians began leaving the reservations and heading north to hold a ‘Medicine Lodge’ with their allies. 1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way (1989) i. i. 22 The twenty-eight peoples of Cheyenne and Sioux medicine lodges are said to have been used to mark the days of the lunar month: ‘In setting up the sun dance lodge..we are really making the universe in a likeness.’ < as lemmas |
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