lakou

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"“He promised to bring the president's wife to our lakou.”"
"Within the lakou, homes consist of wood-framed huts with thatch or corrugated-iron roofs. Furniture is minimal — a few chairs, a table, and some woven mats on which to sleep."
"A lakou is a community space composed of houses populated by several generations of one family, surrounded by a circular garden."

From Haitian Creole lakou, from French la cour (“the courtyard”).

lakous (plural)

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