All 3 Uses of
tribute
in
Gone with the Wind
- Not all the flowers of the town were standing in tribute to the leaders of the Confederacy.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- It was the same intangible, unspectacular courage that all the Wilkeses possessed, a quality which Scarlett did not understand but to which she gave grudging tribute.†
Chpt 3.26
- Cheeks lak ze rose, eyes lak ze emerald!" he said, kissing Scarlett's hand and paying tribute to the rouge upon her face.†
Chpt 4.35
Definition:
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(tribute as in: demanded they pay tribute) payment by one nation for protection by another;
or: payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence