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Bontemps

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[bon-tahm, bawn-tahn] / bɒnˈtɑm, bɔ̃ˈtɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Arna Wendell 1902–73, U.S. author.


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Frankie Bontemps, a second generation Chagossian in the UK, told the BBC that he felt "betrayed" and "angry" on Thursday because "Chagossians have never been involved" in the negotiations.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2024

I think of Arna Bontemps recalling the Watts of his childhood in the 1931 novel “God Sends Sunday.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

Tim Bontemps and Anu Narayanswamy contributed to this report.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2016

Edited by the Howard University philosophy professor Alain Locke and dedicated, rather grandly, to ‘‘the Younger Generation,’’ the volume included contributions from Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016

Bontemps predicted to the girl, in the Duchess's presence, that she would marry a man of two thousand louis a year.

From Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici by Various

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