tontine

Example Sentences

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Both part of a tontine, for financial and moral support, Mâ Brêh and Sabine believe in the might derived from fellowship, even more so as part of unprotected communities.

From Los Angeles Times

She also hears from Sabine and the other hairdressers about their own tontine and its central role in their professional and domestic lives.

From The New Yorker

People have booked their tables here months in advance, entering via some kind of lottery or elaborate tontine, and here you are with this verified stranger quietly picking at your food.

From The Guardian

Although most people will know them from the works of Agatha Christie or Robert Louis Stevenson, tontines were once real.

From Economist

Works by Agatha Christie, Robert Louis Stevenson and P. G. Wodehouse all featured tontine members plotting to kill one another in hope of a big payoff.

From New York Times