Meanings
nouncanticoy (plural canticoys)
plural canticoys · alternative cantico · alternative kantikoy
- archaicrareA social gathering, usually for dancing.
[…] as long as M. Poincaré keeps up his canticoys, so long will that disturbance increase.
1923, The Freeman, volume 6, page 4571 more example
The Indians denied us going to the town on excuse of a canticoy. We lodged in the woods that night.
1906, Richard C. Adams, A Brief History of the Delaware Indians, page 17
Origin
From an Algonquian (probably Lenape) language; compare Unami këntke (“he dances”) and English cantico.
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