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Brazil's national music
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samba
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Word definitions for samba in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Brazilian dance of African origin, 1885, Zemba , from Portuguese samba , shortened form of zambacueca , a type of dance, probably altered (by influence of zamacueco "stupid") from zambapalo , the name of a grotesque dance, itself an alteration of zampapalo ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Blood and Uzis more than samba and sequins are their trademark today. ▪ Music welled in the bar, a samba with many guitars. ▪ Neguinho, the Beija-Flor samba school singer, had arrived to thank the Flamengo players for their support. ...
Usage examples of samba.
If Samba was anything like Drina and every other FamCat, Samba would turn the tables on Drina, and Straif would leave with a Fam with wounded pride.
The samba dancer held a pair of brightly painted maracas in his slender hands.
But where the male samba dancer held maracas, she balanced a magnificently plumed parrot on her wrist.
Spellbinder, Soliloquy, Atlas, Logjam, Caribou, Ludwig, Samba, Mambo, Rhumba, Chatterley, Vladimir, Lava, Bliss, Torquemada, Flint, Devil-May-Care, Whitewater, Winter Morning, Vernal, Equinox, Mesa, Calliope, Grandstand, Olivia!
I waltz as well as I do the polka and the Schuhplattler and the samba and the rhumba.
In fact, he can see that she rumbas and sambas and congas much better than any married beautiful should, because between a rumba and a samba she informs him that her name is Mrs.
So they get out on the floor and rumba quite a while and after that they samba some and then they conga and Ambrose can see that the beautiful has a very liberal education, indeed, along these lines.
The streets were literally wall-to-wall with cariocas, dancing the samba, sweating, laughing, staggering in the heat, celebrating in the biggest spontaneous outpouring of joy that the city had ever seen.
And she liked the feel of Brazil, the pace of life, the way they moved, the football in the streets, the way they were never quite dressed, the music of the Portuguese language coming out of the neighborhood bars along with batuque and samba and laughter and the pungent smell of pinga.
The Jardins de Bagatelle, the Rio Samba, the Paul McCartney rose, the Auguste Renoir, the Barbara Bush, the Voodoo, and the Bride’.