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Definition of Mento
1. Noun. A folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices. ¹
2. Noun. An individual mento song. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mento
1. a traditional Jamaican form of song [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mento
Literary usage of Mento
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1870)
"One of the typical specimens of S. mento. Manado. ... Peters's detailed description
with an example of S. mento, I have convinced myself that the Celebes ..."
2. A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Midwifery by William Smoult Playfair (1885)
"By this the occiput is still more completely pressed back on the nape of the
neck, and the fronto-mental, rallier than the mento-breg- Fio. 112. Thin! ..."
3. A System of Midwifery: Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal by William Leishman (1876)
"Distinction between "Obstetrical" and "Anatomical" Face—mento-Posterior and
mento-Anterior Varieties—FOURTH POSITION : mechanism of— THIRD POSITION—FIRST ..."
4. Papers of the British School at Rome by British School at Rome (1904)
"mento (cf. 1699— a drawing of the same cornice attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi
with a similar legend), and reproduced by Serlio, Architettura, [1562] iii. ..."
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