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Brazilian dance with African roots
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samba
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Samba is a 2014 French comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano . It is the second collaboration between Sy and directors Nakache and Toledano after 2012's The Intouchables . The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International ...
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n. large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood [syn: obeche , obechi , arere , Triplochiton scleroxcylon ] music composed for ...
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’.