canticoy

English

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Etymology

From an Algonquian (probably Lenape) language; compare Unami këntke (he dances) and English cantico.[1]

Noun

canticoy (plural canticoys)

  1. (archaic, rare) A social gathering, usually for dancing.
    • 1906, Richard C. Adams, A Brief History of the Delaware Indians, page 17:
      The Indians denied us going to the town on excuse of a canticoy. We lodged in the woods that night.
    • 1923, The Freeman, volume 6, page 457:
      [] as long as M. Poincaré keeps up his canticoys, so long will that disturbance increase.

References

  1. Chamberlain, Alexander F. (1902 October–December) “Algonkian Words in American English: A Study in the Contact of the White Man and The Indian”, in The Journal of American Folk-Lore, volume XV, number LIX, American Folk-Lore Society, →DOI, page 241

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