palm wine
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A genre of popular music most closely associated with mid-20th-century Sierra Leone.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Their food is rice, fish, and pisang, and their drink water; though they likewise have sagwire, or palm wine."
- "One of the few luxuries of Matabello is the palm wine; which is the fermented sap from the flower stains of the cocoa-net. It is really a very mice drink, more like cyder than beer, though quite as intoxicating as the latter."
- "In Amboyna a man can keep himself and his family on next to no work at all; may dress decently, in the universal sarong and coat that both sexes wear; may eat of the best, drink sweet, intoxicating sagoweer or palm wine to his fullest desire (since he is Christian, not Mohammedan), may loaf, dance, and gossip half the day, eat a quarter of the day, and work perhaps an eighth."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.