tontine

Example Sentences

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The practice carries many names worldwide and among American immigrant communities, including tanda, sou-sou or tontine.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2022

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 • Oct. 16, 2019

Getting creative: It goes by different names in every immigrant community — the keh in Koreatown, the hui in Chinatown, the tontine in Cambodia Town.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2019

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 • Jul. 27, 2017

Suppose we start one of those tontine affairs ourselves; I to pay five hundred a year, and you to guarantee me against every misfortune except illness or marriage.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis