Quashee
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Quashee — Quash ee, n. A negro of the West Indies. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Quashee — /kwah shee/, n. a male day name for Sunday. See under day name … Useful english dictionary
Akan names — The Akan people of Ghana frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These names have spread through West Africa, from Benin/Dahomey (Fon) and Togo (Ewe) to the Côte d Ivoire… … Wikipedia
Day name — A day name is the name given to a child to reflect the day of the week on which he/she was born. Jamaica It was customary among the plantation workers in Jamaica to call their children by the African name of the day of the week on which they were … Wikipedia
day name — (formerly, esp. in creole speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child s sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday… … Universalium
slavery — /slay veuh ree, slayv ree/, n. 1. the condition of a slave; bondage. 2. the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. 3. a state of subjection like that of a slave: He was kept in slavery by drugs. 4. severe toil; drudgery. [1545 55; SLAVE… … Universalium
CRÉOLE (LANGUE) — CRÉOLE LANGUE Depuis la publication de la première grammaire créole (J. M. Magens, Grammatica over det creolske sprog , Copenhague, 1770), les études portant sur le créole ont considérablement fait progresser la connaissance de cette langue. Le… … Encyclopédie Universelle
day name — (formerly, esp. in creole speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child s sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday… … Useful english dictionary
