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dancehall

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Word definitions for dancehall in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s. Initially dancehall was a more sparse version of reggae than the roots style, which had dominated much of the 1970s. Three of the biggest stars of the early dancehall era ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a public hall for dancing 2 a type of Jamaican entertainment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancehall) 3 a reggae dance style; ragga

Usage examples of dancehall.

It was next door to a bar, over a cheap dancehall: twelve feet square, bare as a monk's cell, all his pictures filed in boxes.

When she went to -the room, she found that the dancehall music from below filtered up.

She remembered how the dancehall music made the floor pulse, how the lights of the fishing boats glittered across the water at night, how it felt when Pascal took her in his arms.

Once upon a time, lying in darkness while the music from the dancehall below moved the air in his room, she had traced that scar with her fingers as he slept beside her.

You won't want to keep me here a dancehall girl taking care of your daughter.

In the dancehall a young man had joined the fiddler and he kept the measure of the music with a pair of spoons which he clapped between his knees.

The strains of Dancehall and Rap, blunted and languorous, and everywhere Drum and Bass, febrile and poised, savage and impenetrable.

A sudden wall of rain came down the street toward us, the droplets fat as small pebbles and blurring the purple and green neon lights of a bar and dancehall two blocks in the distance.

The posters plastered on the crumbling walls advertised the same dancehalls, warned of the same coming doom, demanded allegiance to the same political parties as elsewhere in the city.

The posters plastered on the crumbling walls advertised the same dancehalls, warned of the same coming doom, demanded al­legiance to the same political parties as elsewhere in the city.

There were dancehalls, there were long and ornate bars, there were rooms in plenty devoted to various games of so-called chance, and most significant, there were scores of those unmistakable cubicles.

On Penticuff Strip, which angled southeast from the old business district, there were pawn shops, beer joints, dancehalls, tattoo parlors, even some two-buck-a-tussel cathouses.