mento
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As a child, he was captivated by local music after hearing a neighbor’s sound system playing mento, a Jamaican folk style.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Ska was born as Jamaican dance music, first played in the 1950s, that combined the Caribbean sounds of mento and calypso with the imported R&B that was popular in Black America at the time.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021
The market also offers mento music, the mostly acoustic precursor to reggae that was practically invented in Port Antonio.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2013
He had plenty of reggae and dance-hall that day — and even a few mento mixes — but no Jolly Boys.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2011
Next him is Andrew Keith, with a scar on his right hand, and then Dominus Ioannes Ruthuen, Scotus, cum signo albo in mento, ‘with a white mark on his chin.’
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Lang, Andrew
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