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Answer for the clue "Lively Spanish dance ", 6 letters:
bolero

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Word definitions for bolero in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bolero (1975-1986) was a dressage horse and an influential sire. He stood .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bolero \Bo*le"ro\, n. [Sp.] (Mus.) A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it. A kind of small outer jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by women.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of Spanish dance, 1787, from Spanish, probably from bola "ball" (and perhaps with reference to "whirling motion"), from Latin bulla (see bull (n.2)). In reference to a type of short jacket, it is recorded by 1864.

Usage examples of bolero.

Lifting her arms behind her head, she pirouetted slowly before Robie to show how much she did for her bolero half-jacket and her form-fitting slacks that melted into skylon just above the knees.

They wore striped and particoloured breeches, voluminous shirts only half-buttoned or laced up at their chests, and brightly embroidered boleros.

The end result was a short, black strapless dress topped with a bolero jacket aswirl with red passementerie, a soft, straight, ribbon-tied ponytail, smoky eyes, red-red lips, onyx earrings, sheer black hose, and high-heeled patent pumps.

Holding each other very close, the Captain and Zenaida danced the first boleros that were just beginning to break hearts in those days.

He lighted another with the butt and was thoughtful for a long time, resting his elbows on the table while the radio ground out sentimental boleros.

The mounted heads of wildebeast, stags, tigers and one polar bear competed for space with South American wall-hangings, Chinese jade, Japanese prints, Flemish reproductions, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, works of reference and a set of boleros.

Cordelia nested it deeply in the inner pocket of one of Drou's Vorbarra--crested boleros, worn over Cordelia's dress to complete the picture of an inner Residence worker.

On it stood an assortment of humanoid robots garbed in the costumes of the time: men with belts and codpieces, otherwise naked, and women with multitiered skirts and breast-baring boleros.

The store was a multicolored cornucopia of dresses and sweaters, bras and stockings, high-heeled shoes and boleros.

Magpie Maggie Hag had tired of seeing Monday Simms do her stately haute école riding in a mere suit of fleshings, so now she rigged Monday out as a Cordobesa of her own native Spain: black velvet trousers with silvery conchas down the seams, soft boots, a white blouse with wide sleeves and a bright red bolero over that.

In the more developed the sheath of the stem had split down the front and peeled back, like a bolero jacket or green dressing robe, half revealing a delectable torso, baby pink yet an anatomically perfect replica of some celebrated figure.

Indeed, half of her second chin had disappeared, and the lovely little roll of belly below her amethyst-encrusted lavender bra and bolero and above the amethyst-studded band of the diaphanous lilac harem pants she wore was eclipsed from its usual full moon to little more than a quarter.

The hat was called a bolero, named after the drow wizard who had given it its tidy shape and had imbued it, and several others of the same make, with certain magical properties.

One week later, during a performance of 101 variations on Ravel's Bolero, as Henry was standing by with his spittle-collection jar, his vacuum siphon, his spittle-sample camera, his log book, and the necessary legal forms requiring the signature of each donating musician, this dear man, this well-liked nonentity, suddenly began to spin.

She wore thigh high black leather boots, a red jewelled bolero, and a scanty red patch covering her pubic hairs - nothing else except for a red tricorne hat atop her mound of yellow curls.