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  • Festivals
      The Bahamian festival which outshines all others is JUNKANOO, a heady mixture of fantastic, colorful costumes and exuberant African rhythms
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  • Buildings
    Traditionally most DWELVING HOUSES in the Bahamas have been modest. Only wealthy people can afford an UPSTAIRS HOUSE with GABLE-ENDS
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  • Fruit
    Northerners are unfamiliar with many of the tropical fruits well-known in the Bahamas, such as SWEET SOP, DILLY, SCARLET PLUM, MAMMEE
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  • Folklore
    The folklore of the Bahamas, like other aspects of its culture, has its roots in both Europe and Africa and is closely
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  • Festivals
      The Bahamian festival which outshines all others is JUNKANOO, a heady mixture of fantastic, colorful costumes and exuberant African rhythms
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  • fyak
    [etym?] n. witchcraft (old term): 1966 (Crowley 17). She does work fyak (Mayag.). cf. MOJO, OBEAH (Black)
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  • fuss
    [OED, to put into a fuss, agitate; US dial, fuss to scold ADD] v.t. to nag (a person). (Gen.) fuss somebody out
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  • furrer
    n. See FARRER n.
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  • furrer
    /fóra/ [cf. Brit. dial. North idem EDI)] adv. farther: 1880 I seed it comin nor furrer den dat house (Ives 159). cf.
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  • furnitures
    [Trin. idem (Winer)] count noun, pl, pieces of furniture: Our dining room need new furnitures (Nassau). (Black)
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