| 单词 | palaver-room |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalaver-room palaver-room 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 1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 63 Every Town hereabouts, had a Palaaver-Room. 1821 C. Hutton Tour Afr. III. xi. 193 It is necessary for the French merchant to have in his house a room called the palaver-room; that is an apartment in which there are neither goods nor furniture. 1922 85th Ann. Rep. Board Foreign Missions (Presbyterian Church U.S.A.) 91 There has been built a four-family, personal boys' house, 20x60; a dining room for the girls' school plant, 44x16; and a palaver room, 20x20. 2004 M. Adejunmobi Vernacular Palaver Introd. p. vii In the restored slave forts of the city of Cape Coast Ghana, tour guides will often describe the rooms where European and African traders met to discuss their business as the ‘Palaver Room’. < as lemmas |
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