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flamenco

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet [syn: gypsy dancing ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882, from Spanish flamenco , first used of Gypsy dancing in Andalusia. The word in Spanish meant "a Fleming , native of Flanders" (Dutch Vlaming ) and also " flamingo ." Speculation are varied and colorful about the connection between the bird, the people, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flamenco is a 1952 Spanish documentary film directed by Edgar Neville . It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival .

Usage examples of flamenco.

Below, the city was bustling: Sevillanos riding pillion on their raucous little scooters, dodging tapas-hungry tourists who, despite their computerized guides, still wandered lost in the maze of the Barrio Santa Cruz, marvelling at the prodigal orange trees casting fruit on the cobbles, sighing over the romance of it all, linking arms, and looking out for authentic flamenco.

Tom was so busy chasing up Spanish hats, castanets, a guitarist and a flamenco dancer that he never seemed to have time to discuss the menus.

She hangs around in some spic joint where you can see a real Spanish flamenco.

The seated performers joined in with the jaleo, and the handclaps that accompany the flamenco dance, and the rhythmic beat of the palms enhanced the music and dancing, lifting it, building it, until the room began to rock with the echo of the zapateado, the hypnotic beat of the half toe, the heel, and the full sole clacking out an endless variation of tone and rhythmic sensations.

Joe and Nancy Mondragon were both so bombed they could hardly stand up, let alone walk, God forbid knock off La Raspa, a foxtrot, or the Monkey, but they had decided to perform a flamenco number to a trio of unabashedly drippy accordions, chunk-a-chunk guitars, gagging fiddles, and' hysterically sobbing south-of-the-border voices, so they cleared the floor by elbowing everybody else aside, and--Nancy gritting an imaginary rose in her teeth, Joe with a fist clenched against his belly holding together an imaginary skintight gypsy jacket --they began to "dance.

You know something, Kurt, I still hear little flamenco dancers in my head whenever I drink Spanish wine.