Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pagod . - noun A part of fashionable dress of the first half of the eighteenth century, apparently at first adopted by women and then by men who affected fashion.
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Examples
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For the past three years, DJ Neville C-- a.k.a. Som Records owner Neal Becton -- has hosted Brazilian Rhythms, giving music fans their monthly fix of samba and tropicália beats, spinning classic bossa novas and introducing curious clubgoers to the infectiously festive Brazilian sounds of forró, axe and pagode.
Nightlife Agenda Going Out Guide 2010
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For the past three years, DJ Neville C-- a.k.a. Som Records owner Neal Becton -- has hosted Brazilian Rhythms, giving music fans their monthly fix of samba and tropicália beats, spinning classic bossa novas and introducing curious clubgoers to the infectiously festive Brazilian sounds of forró, axe and pagode.
Nightlife Agenda Post 2010
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Français · Myanmar (Birmanie): Effondrement d'une pagode historique
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: Collapse of an Ancient Pagoda 2009
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For the past three years, DJ Neville C - a.k.a. Som Records owner Neal Becton - has hosted Brazilian Rhythms, giving music fans their monthly fix of samba and tropicália beats, spinning classic bossa novas and introducing curious clubgoers to the infectiously festive Brazilian sounds of forró, axe and pagode.
Nightlife Agenda Fritz Hahn 2010
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DJ Neville C-- a.k.a. Som Records owner Neal Becton -- has made numerous trips to Brazil to shop for vinyl, and the depth of his collection shows at this monthly club event: Brazilian Embassy staffers get down to the sounds of forró, axe and pagode while newbies try the fresh caipirinha cocktails at the bar.
Getting Up Guide: 'Ameriville' and Brazilian rhythms Alex Baldinger 2010
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Therefore the raven is black, and the coq de pagode is half red, half black.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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The raven and the coq de pagode were once men in the service of the saint (Confucius), who transformed them into birds as a punishment for disobedience.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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The coq de pagode wished to do the same to itself, but had only enough black ink for half its body; for the rest it was obliged to use red.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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The great silver soup-tureen, big enough for a baby's bath, and so tall that she had to stand up to it, was in front of Tante Rose, and before she began to ladle out the platefuls, with the light, accurate movements of her arms characteristic of her, a servant carefully fastened behind her her long sleeves à la pagode.
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They liked pagode, a type of Brazilian pop music, and funk, a rap style, just like most young people in these communities.
IPS Inter Press Service Fabiana Frayssinet 2010
jwachs commented on the word pagode
A loan word from French literally meaning "mackerel," but used as a slang term for a procurer, i.e. a pimp.
April 27, 2009