patois
Example Sentences
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“These are what we used as the backdrop for the concert scenes. Them spiritual to me,” Marley says in patois as the smell of palo santo dances around the rehearsal space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Bulgarian singer Dara has the night's best staging on Bangaranga - a nonsensical typhoon of tropical pop, based around a word from Jamaican patois that means "a joyful kind of disorder".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
The patois changes from office to office and company to company, and the meanings behind certain terms shift from person to person.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025
For Green, one of the biggest challenges of a film like “One Love” was getting the patois language right and making it feel real without watering it down.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2024
There was a faint twang in his voice, a hint of a patois that might have been West Indian.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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