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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 ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
flamenco \flamenco\ n. a strongly rhythmic and vigorous style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian gypsies, characterized by clapping and stamping of feet. Syn: gypsy dancing. (Mus.) a strongly rhythmic style of music originating in southern Spain, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES ballet/ballroom/flamenco etc dancer ▪ Margot Fonteyn, the famous British ballet dancer EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Accompanied by the thrilling music of flamenco guitars. ▪ He won his first formal competition, in Classical ...
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.