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Answer for the clue "Cuban musical form ", 5 letters:
mambo

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Word definitions for mambo in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
popular dance (like the rhumba but livelier), September 1948, from American Spanish mambo , said by Webster to be from Haitian creole word for "voodoo priestess."

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mambo is a musical genre and dance style that developed originally in Cuba. The word "Mambo", similarly to other afroamerican musical denominations as conga, milonga, bomba, tumba, samba, bamba,bamboula, tambo, tango, cumbé, cumbia and candombe, denote ...

Usage examples of mambo.

The elaborate ruins of Dhlo Dhlo and Khami, of Niekerk and Inyanga and Penhalonga, even the last levels of Mapungubwe, all belong to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: while the Mambo line of Ba-Rozwi rulers which had established itself at Great Zimbabwe in the first years of the seventeenth century would continue into the first decades of the nineteenth.

Spellbinder, Soliloquy, Atlas, Logjam, Caribou, Ludwig, Samba, Mambo, Rhumba, Chatterley, Vladimir, Lava, Bliss, Torquemada, Flint, Devil-May-Care, Whitewater, Winter Morning, Vernal, Equinox, Mesa, Calliope, Grandstand, Olivia!

Ultimately, what drove him to put his job on the line was the failure of the banks and US Treasury to change course when confronted with the crisesfailures and suffering perpetrated by their four-step monetarist mambo.

There were no heat signatures for the bokor, the hougan or the mambos.

You're the one doing the horizontal mambo with the dead guy, you tell me?

Jordan looked up at the bird's proud, cruel head, at the sightless eyes which stared blankly towards the north, towards the land of the Mambos and the Monomatapa which men now called Rhodesia, and where the white eagle and the black bull were again locked in mortal conflict, and Jordan felt a sense of helplessness and emptiness, as though he were caught up in the coils of destiny and was unable to break free.

There will be no peace in the kingdoms of the Mambos or the Monomatopas until they return.

She foresaw that the man who brought the falcons back to Zimbabwe would rule the land as once did the Mambos and Monomatopas, as once did your ancestors Lobengula and great Mzilikazi.

There shall be no peace in the kingdoms of the Mambos or the Monomatopas until they return.

Zouga leaned forward, listening intently, There shall be no peace in the kingdoms of the Mambos or the Monomatapa until they return.

There shall be no peace in the kingdoms of the Mambos or the Monomatapas until they return.

If local houngans and mambos, male and female priests, had done their job, thousands of faithful would be in attendance.

Women priests or mambos have to do the same thing with a senior mambo.

Once my forefathers were great kings, they were Mambos of all the land, and that is still my name and dignity.

But one minute Beauvoir’s talking biz, street tech, like I never heard before, and the next he’s talking mambos and ghosts and snakes and, and .