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词汇 rent party
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Definition of rent party in English:

rent party

noun
US
  • A party held to raise money to pay rent by charging guests for attendance.

    〈美〉(东道主向参加者收费以支付房租的)收费家庭舞会

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He wrote about the experience of black Americans, including lynchings and rent parties.
    • For Thurman, documenting Harlem life meant describing rent parties, discrimination among blacks, unusual sexual choices, and, in some cases, people's dissatisfaction with their own skin color.
    • The first time I met Jack Benny, he took me to a rent party.
    • Granted, Edmonton is not Harlem, and Duke Ellington won't be showing up to cut all comers at the piano, but the rent party is infinitely adaptable.
    • The first time I went to 3 Muses I jotted in my notebook, ‘It reminds me of a rent party.’
    • This ‘emotional hangover’ that Ray and Stephen both experience by the novel's conclusion recalls the night of the rent party mentioned in my introduction.
    • Swing originated in the juke joints and rent parties of Kansas City, Chicago and Harlem.
    • After visiting Harlem's nightclubs and several rent parties, Mitchell realizes that he is the same man he met in his own kitchen.
    • As a young Beatnik-hipster, he attended every event, from poetry readings to concerts to gallery openings to rent parties.
    • In print I gathered that blues was fundamentally social; I was always reading something about the big names of the genre getting their start playing fish-fries, juke joints, and rent parties.

Definition of rent party in US English:

rent party

noun
US
  • A party held to raise money to pay rent by charging guests for attendance.

    〈美〉(东道主向参加者收费以支付房租的)收费家庭舞会

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In print I gathered that blues was fundamentally social; I was always reading something about the big names of the genre getting their start playing fish-fries, juke joints, and rent parties.
    • The first time I met Jack Benny, he took me to a rent party.
    • For Thurman, documenting Harlem life meant describing rent parties, discrimination among blacks, unusual sexual choices, and, in some cases, people's dissatisfaction with their own skin color.
    • This ‘emotional hangover’ that Ray and Stephen both experience by the novel's conclusion recalls the night of the rent party mentioned in my introduction.
    • He wrote about the experience of black Americans, including lynchings and rent parties.
    • The first time I went to 3 Muses I jotted in my notebook, ‘It reminds me of a rent party.’
    • As a young Beatnik-hipster, he attended every event, from poetry readings to concerts to gallery openings to rent parties.
    • After visiting Harlem's nightclubs and several rent parties, Mitchell realizes that he is the same man he met in his own kitchen.
    • Granted, Edmonton is not Harlem, and Duke Ellington won't be showing up to cut all comers at the piano, but the rent party is infinitely adaptable.
    • Swing originated in the juke joints and rent parties of Kansas City, Chicago and Harlem.
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