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. (October–December 1902), “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, issue LIX, American Folk-Lore Society, DOI:10.2307/533199, page 241
  • canticoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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