| 单词 | palaver house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalaver house palaver house n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > place for speech-housec1050 palaver-court1735 palaver-room1735 palaver house1789 baraza1863 cenacle1889 conference table1928 table1946 rap centre1969 1789 Abridgem. Minutes Evid. Comm. Slave-trade (House of Commons) 33 Free-men are tried by the Pynims,..who meet in the market-place, if there is no palaver-house (an open court of justice) and try them openly. 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. v. 85 The Africans..hold their meetings in the búrree, or palaver house. 1861 P. B. Du Chaillu Explor. Equatorial Afr. vi. 50 The chief's house and the palaver-house are larger than the others. 1940 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol Soc. 70 182 One day the men were sitting in the palaver-house in Kapoko, near Dondi, when they heard the screams of an ox outside, greatly excited. 2003 Black Renaissance (Nexis) 31 Dec. 94 The high-and-mighty discourse of the elders floats out from the palaver house. < as lemmas |
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