tonnelle

For the tonnelle was a kind of arbour – a long covered passage made by trees at each side, whose boughs had been trained to meet and interlace overhead.

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A line of soft glowing light spread slowly down one side of the tonnelle, and the society members, their heads bowed and their hands clasping the candles to their chests, began to sing once more.

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At the back of the tonnelle, in place of the cooking fires, three women moved impulsively to the rhythm of a small battery of drums.

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The drums began, and as we passed back into the tonnelle small groups of dancers swirled before them, challenging each other to greater and greater bursts of effort.

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And then, once the coffin had been lifted and marched back to its chamber, Andrés again led us away from the tonnelle to the bagi.

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A man with ropes across each shoulder like bandoliers came hurriedly across the tonnelle carrying a sisal whip and took up a position just outside the exit.

The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

Groping in the darkness, we followed him out of the shelter of the tonnelle and around the corner of his house to a small outbuilding perched precariously on the steepest part of the sidehill.

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An order went out commanding the members to form a line, and then the secretary, the president, and one of the women walked ceremoniously to the end of the tonnelle, and pivoting in a disciplined military manner returned as one rank to the coffin.

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There were two main structures, both small, linked by a tonnelle and surrounded by a wattle fence.

The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

Once satisfied, he led us out of the bagi back to the tonnelle.

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