cantico

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sacred ceremony of the Algonquin tribe that involved dancing in a circle, at which colonists were not welcome.
    — We lodged in the woods that night, and heard the shouting of the Indians at a cantico, which they were said to hold that evening in a town hard by.
  2. A dance festival in which colonial Americans and natives both participated.
    — The cash-book tells us of the expense of himself and family going to fairs, and Indian canticoes, probably gotten up to amuse the Proprietary.
  3. An uproar; activity that is full of high spirits and violent action. broadly
    — It was almost like father and son meeting to adjust a little misunderstanding arising from the latter's canticoes.

词形变化

canticos plural canticoes plural canticoy alternative kantikoy alternative

词源

From an south Eastern Algonquian language. Compare a Lenape gen'tke'n ("to sing, dance, etc.") as well as Powhatan kantokan (“dance”) and kantikanti (“dance and sing”).
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