"hounsi" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 48",
          "text": "At the entrance to the tent, the hounsis stretch out upon the mats.",
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          "ref": "1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 48",
          "text": "Each hounsis remained anonymous, focused inward and turned away from the audience toward the poteau mitan and the drums.",
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          "ref": "1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 214",
          "text": "In both Rada and Petwo modes of ritualizing, it is customary for ounsis to show respect to priests and priestesses through such ritual salutations."
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