All 4 Uses of
tribute
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- The labor in the kitchen had been long and hard all day in the heat, and the residue was everywhere: the flagstone floor was slick with the spilt grease of roasted meat and trodden-in peel; sodden tea towels, tributes to heroic forgotten labors, drooped above the range like decaying regimental banners in church; nudging Cecilia's shin, an overflowing basket of vegetable trimmings which Betty would take home to feed to her Gloucester Old Spot, fattening for December.†
Chpt 1tributes = payments by one nation for protection by another;
or: payments extorted by gangsters on threat of violence
- From the way it looked here, where you could hardly be bothered to lift your feet to step over a dead woman's arm, he did not think he would be needing apologies or tributes.†
Chpt 2 *
- Flowers, especially wildflowers, seemed a proper tribute.†
Chpt 1
- His deceit was a form of tribute to the importance of their marriage.†
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(tribute as in: a tribute to the great actor) praise or something done to express admiration or respect
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(2)
(tribute as in: demanded they pay tribute) payment by one nation for protection by another;
or: payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence