canticoy
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From an Algonquian (probably Lenape) language; compare Unami këntke (“he dances”) and English cantico.[1]
Noun
[edit]canticoy (plural canticoys)
- (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
[edit]- ^ 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[1], volume XV, number LIX, American Folk-Lore Society, , page 241
- “canticoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.