الواصلة
pea·nut gal·le·ryالتركية النطق
pinıt gälıriالنطق
/ˈpēnət ˈgalərē/ /ˈpiːnət ˈɡælɜriː/
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() The historically prior sense of “an upper balcony for black patrons” probably derives from an early association between peanuts and the African slaves who first introduced them to America;The All-American Cookie Book by Nancy Baggett (2001; ; ISBN 0395915376, 9780395915370), Peanuts have never gotten much respect in America. Their reputation is better than it once was, but if something is “worth peanuts,” we know it’s trifling. Perhaps the root of the problem — so to speak — was that peanuts were first introduced to America by African slaves. During the Civil War, when food supplies were scarce, both Union and Confederate troops started eating these legumes out of necessity, and goobers gradually caught on. By 1870, P. T. Barnum’s vendors were hawking peanuts at his circus. Soon, they were also sold in theaters, where the cheap seats became known as “peanut galleries.” the extended sense of “a source of heckling” most probably derives from the disesteem in which those balconies and their occupants were generally held.