banana belt

noun

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

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.”

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She met immediate success on the Theatre des Champs-Elysees stage, where she appeared topless and wearing a famed banana belt.

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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.

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The crown jewel of the tour is Baker’s famous banana belt, which she wore — along with nothing else — in the Danse Sauvage at the Folies-Bergère in 1926.

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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.

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