| 释义 |
Africana|æfrɪˈkɑːnə, -ˈeɪnə|
[f. Africa + ana suffix.]
Books, documents, or the like, relating to objects peculiar to, or connected with, Africa, in particular Southern Africa, especially those of value or interest to collectors.
1908(title of catalogue, Davis & Sons, Durban) Africana: a list of work [sic] dealing with South Africa. 1943Africana Notes & News Dec. 4 Africana is a word of many different meanings; to one it means books and other printed or manuscript material, to another it means objects other than books. For Africana Notes and News it is used in its widest sense, covering prints, maps,..books, pamphlets,..furniture, weapons, pictures and by-gones of all kinds—it is restricted only from a geographical point of view; it denotes not the whole of Africa but only Southern Africa. 1949L. G. Green Land of Afternoon vi. 78 Greatest of all Africana collectors was Sidney Mendelssohn. 1952E. H. Burrows Overberg Outspan v. 122 A rare item of africana of a dozen or so pages. |