Afoxe vs Afore - What's the difference?
afoxe | afore |
(music) A genre of Afro-Brazilian music
* {{quote-news, 1990, December 28, Fernando Gonzalez, Two Daring Journeys into Brazilian Music, Boston Globe
, passage="Afros E Afoxes de Bahia" offers a sampling of afros and afoxe groups and features singers such as Gilberto Gil and Margareth Menezes.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 17, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Cuban Music, Good for Dancing, and for Thinking About as Well, work=New York Times
, passage=It now brings together son, guajira, guaracha with New Orleans funk, Nigerian Afrobeat, South American cumbia, James Brown rhythms, Haitian compas, Brazilian afoxe , New York City boogaloo and even jam-band stuff predicated on electric guitars as much as hand drums. }}
(dialect) Before.
* Shakespeare
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, title= (nautical) In the fore part of a ship.
before
* 1989: , Bell in the tree; The Glasgow story
in advance of the time when; before
* 1611 King James Bible (Authorised Version); Ezekiel 33:22
*:Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth ...
As a noun afoxe
is a genre of Afro-Brazilian music.As an adverb afore is
before.As a preposition afore is
before.As a conjunction afore is
in advance of the time when; before.afoxe
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See also
* (wikipedia "afoxe")afore
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Alternative forms
* afforAdverb
(-)- If he have never drunk wine afore , it will go near to remove his fit.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
Preposition
(English prepositions)- "Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile. "I mind that! Where was that?" "That was us when we all worked in the shop, afore the War." "Oh aye …?" he frowned. "Who …?" She took the photograph back from him and reached inside her apron pocket for her spectacles.