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Lively Spanish dance
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fandango
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Fandango is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Kevin Reynolds . It was originally a student film titled Proof made by Reynolds while he was attending USC film school. It was a parody of Greek life at his alma mater Baylor University . However, due ...
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n. a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Edna was a grown-up and could slap you silly and dance fandangos on your face. ▪ I looked all around for the fandango dancer to appear but she kept well clear. ▪ Then he turned to his son and told him to sing fandangos in the ...
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Donna Ignazia, a mixture of voluptuousness and piety, like most Spanish women, danced the fandango with so much fire that no words could have expressed so well the Joys that were in store for me.
It was the famous fandango, of which I had often heard, but of which I had absolutely no idea.
The masker who had taken me to his box told me that I should see the fandango danced by the Gitanas with good partners.
He confessed that he had been on our track the whole evening, and that he should have gone away well enough pleased if it had not been for the way in which we dance the fandango.
At nightfall we went to the ball, at which the fandango might be danced ad libitum by a special privilege, but the crowd was so great that dancing was out of the question.
A man, a blue-eyed, fair-haired Mexican, dressed in a silver embroidered charro suit suddenly leaped on tathe dais to join her as the music changed to a fandango.
Five green lights flashed to red and disappeared, on their way to predesignated stations outside Fandango: one off each blunt end of the Depot cylinder and the remainder at the entry to the gateway force field.
She reined in Fandango, fighting to sit tall and steady when Cates took the reins.
He swung down and caught her reins, holding Fandango steady while she crawled down from the saddle.
Amanda was still stewing when Harm grabbed her reins and jerked Fandango around.
A low nickering sound and the jingle of reins as Fandango pushed through the mesquite, looking for care and companionship.
Determined not to be ignored by him, Amanda shinnied off Fandango and went to press the reins upon him.
Fandango could reply, a chair rutched back in the corner and the man at the windowside table stood up and spoke.
This fandango of Sunbelt delegate contests allows Edwards, Lieberman and Graham, who are all likely to finish out of the money in Iowa and New Hampshire, to construct credible scenarios for stirring comebacks.
Donna Ignazia, a mixture of voluptuousness and piety, like most Spanish women, danced the fandango with so much fire that no words could have expressed so well the Joys that were in store for me.