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单词 blues party
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blues party
blues party n. a party organized by West Indians or featuring West Indian music, often requiring payment to gain entry.
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1976 Antioch Rev. 34 305 Blues parties..are held to raise the rent, much as were ‘rent parties’ in the Harlem of the 1920s and '30s.
1985 Economist 9 Nov. 16/2 Make available church halls, old territorial drill-halls, and suchlike semi-vacant premises out of earshot of people's homes, for the all-day, all-night ‘blues parties’ that, in inhabited streets, are a cause of racial friction.
2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard iii. 34 Jamaicans held ‘bashments’ or ‘blues parties’ at each other's houses: in festively crowded front rooms West Indian mento and American R & B would be played into the early hours.
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