单词 | blues party |
释义 | > as lemmasblues party blues party n. a party organized by West Indians or featuring West Indian music, often requiring payment to gain entry. ΚΠ 1976 Antioch Rev. 34 305 Blues parties..are held to raise the rent, much as were ‘rent parties’ in the Harlem of the 1920s and '30s. 1985 Economist 9 Nov. 16/2 Make available church halls, old territorial drill-halls, and suchlike semi-vacant premises out of earshot of people's homes, for the all-day, all-night ‘blues parties’ that, in inhabited streets, are a cause of racial friction. 2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard iii. 34 Jamaicans held ‘bashments’ or ‘blues parties’ at each other's houses: in festively crowded front rooms West Indian mento and American R & B would be played into the early hours. < as lemmas |
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