banana belt

British  

noun

1. informal a region with a warm climate, esp one in Canada

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Example Sentences

Kévi Donat, a Black French guide who gives tours of Black Paris, said Baker is the “most controversial” figure he highlights in his tours, in part because she initially earned fame in France for dancing in a banana belt that “played into stereotypes around Black and African people.”

From Washington Times

Crossing from Uganda’s banana belt into southern Sudan in the 1990s, I would soon see boys igniting the brush to roast any grasshoppers they hadn’t caught, club the last rodents fleeing from their burrows and slingshot ground-nesting birds.

From New York Times

If your family comes from warmer climates and doesn’t find snow charming, this little oasis in Idaho’s banana belt is a good destination.

From Washington Times

This is the land of Oregon’s so-called Banana Belt or “Brookings Effect,” where temperatures occasionally rise much higher than the rest of the coast even in the depths of winter.

From Seattle Times

Washington’s love affair with lavender owes a lot to the Sequim Lavender Festival, along with its cousin, the Sequim Lavender Farm Tour and Fair, all happening this weekend in the banana belt of the Olympic Peninsula.

From Seattle Times