| 单词 | rent party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrent party rent party n. U.S. (chiefly in African-American use) = house rent party n. at house rent n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > fund-raising events > [noun] > rent party parlour social1883 house party1923 house rent party1925 rent party1925 stomp1926 boogie1929 shake1946 skiffle1946 1925 N.Y. Amsterdam News 28 Oct. 1/4 ‘Rent Parties’ which are given by persons to pay their house rent are becoming a menace to the community. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xiii. 145 Its ancestry was long obscured by labels such as ‘house-party’, ‘rent-party’, ‘parlor social’, or simply ‘Harlem’ piano style. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues vi. 203 One of the most frequently heard songs in the rent-party repertoire was The Boy in the Boat. 1993 S. L. Delany et al. Having our Say v. 97 The less well-to-do would hold ‘rent parties’, where, for a small entrance fee, visitors would drink bathtub gin and dance until dawn, raising money to pay the landlord. 2001 E. Bernard in L. Hughes & C. Van Vechten Remember me to Harlem p. xiv ‘Rent parties’, thrown ostensibly to raise rent money for the host, became an important way for blacks to congregate privately, away from the curious gazes of white people. < as lemmas |
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