strange custom

Frequency: 5.52.1 per million words

an unusual or surprising custom

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Examples (10)

  • In that remote village, they have a very strange custom of celebrating funerals with music and dance.
  • Travelers are often fascinated by the strange customs they encounter abroad.
  • Have you ever heard of the strange custom of blackening the bride's face before her wedding?
  • Historians believe this strange custom originated as a way to ward off evil spirits.
  • What might seem like a strange custom to us is perfectly normal in their culture.
  • I found it a rather strange custom to exchange gifts with complete strangers on the street.
  • The family had a strange custom of eating dessert before the main course.
  • The anthropologist's journal was filled with notes on the tribe's strange customs.
  • A local explained the strange custom of tying ribbons to that particular tree.
  • It remains to be seen whether this strange custom will survive for another generation.