hounfour
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Haitian Creole oungfò.
Noun
hounfour (plural hounfours)
- A voodoo temple.
- 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 47:
- A stretch of straw mats is laid on the ground leading from the door of the hounfor.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47:
- I arrived around ten and was taken into the peristyle, the roofed court of the hounfour, and was led around a semicircle of tables to the one where Beauvoir sat at the head.
- 1995, Marilyn Houlberg, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 276:
- In the afternoon, Magda and I went out to purchase some gifts: perfume for Ezili and a bottle of rum for the ounfò.
- 2011, Kyle William Bishop, American Zombie Gothic, page 88:
- Because her Western science has failed to restore Jessica to health, Betsy secretly takes her charge to see the houngan priest at the hounfour for help.