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单词 kaiso tent
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kaiso tent
Caribbean. A venue where calypso is performed. Also more fully calypso tent, kaiso tent.Originally tents were temporary bamboo-framed structures constructed in advance of events and performances. Now buildings often serve as tents (see e.g. quot. 1982).
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1903 Port of Spain Gaz. 26 Feb. 5/2 Rival bands met in streets or in one another's tent, not to test superiority by blows but to engage in friendly competition in song.
1955 I. McDonald in K. Ramchand & C. Gray West Indian Poetry (1972) 19 He was not famous in the tents: he went there once, and not a stone clapped, and he was afraid of respectable eyes.
1982 K. Warner Kaiso! Trinidad Calypso 12 A variety of halls, cinemas and other accessible buildings have served as calypso tents.
2001 ‘Mighty Chalkdust’ The Tent is It (transcribed from music video) The kaiso tent, my friend, Engages time-honoured men.
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