Both Uses
colloquy
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
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- Vell, dis iss a fine day," she did not notice the dustiness of the shelves nor the stupidity of the girl clerk; and she did not remember the mute colloquy with him on her first view of Main Street.†
Chpt 5
- From below, half-heard in her drowsiness, a colloquy in the pidgin-German of the farmers who have forgotten the Old Country language without learning the new: "Hello, Barney, wass willst du?"†
Chpt 15 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(colloquy) a conversation (formal in modern usage); or written dialogue
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)