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单词 griot
释义 griot|ˈgriːəʊ|
[a. Fr. (17th. cent.), of uncertain ulterior etym.]
A member of a class of travelling poets, musicians, and entertainers in North and West Africa, whose duties include the recitation of tribal and family histories; an oral folk-historian or village story-teller, a praise-singer.
1820tr. G. Mollien's Trav. Interior Afr. p. viii, Explanation of certain terms, employed in Africa... Griot, public singer.1906F. B. Archer Gambia Colony i. ii. 33 In most of the towns the head chiefs have a band of musicians and dancing women known as ‘Griots’.1935G. Gorer Africa Dances i. iv. 55 The griots form a special caste... They are outcasts... Griots are by tradition attached to families.1968M. A. Klein Islam & Imperialism in Senegal 10 The griots were the historians, the genealogists, the musicians, and the praise-sayers.1978J. Updike Coup (1979) vii. 273 The one robe in which I would always be clothed, even in death, as long as the griots could sing my ancestry.1983Spectator 28 May 20/3 Charters was introduced to several griots, the troubadours of West Africa, who played for him on strange tribal versions of the fiddle, banjo and xylophone.
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