smoke-talk

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The traditional Aboriginal use of smoke to send messages; smoke-signalling. Australia,obsolete
    — It found new things on which to pander, as the tribal drums thudded and the smoke-talk climbed the Australian sky.
  2. A message so sent; a smoke-signal. Australia,obsolete
    — ‘From the smoke-talks I really thought you must have been bringing out the native Leprosy Commission that I’ve heard vague rumours of.’
  3. A conversation undertaken while smoking tobacco, or while making smoke with a fire. obsolete
    — The monstrous bad taste of a Premier decrying Parliamentary methods in favour of street corner Conventions is deplorable enough, but the logical conclusion to which it leads is a serious danger, inasmuch as the reasoning (if it can be so called) means a return to the old Anglo-Saxon open-air gatherings or the Maori "smoke-talks."

词形变化

smoke-talks plural
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