English

Alternative forms

• kantikoy

Noun

canticoy ‎(plural canticoys)

1. (archaic, rare) A social gathering, usually for dancing.
   • 1906, Richard C. Adams, A Brief History of the Delaware Indians, page 17:

     The Indians denied us going to the town on excuse of a canticoy. We lodged in the woods that night.

   • 1923, in The Freeman, volume 6, page 457:

     […] as long as M. Poincaré keeps up his canticoys, so long will that disturbance increase.

References

• canticoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913