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.