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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An animated Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time.
  2. n. A piece of music for this dance.
  3. n. Informal Nonsense; tomfoolery.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A lively dance, very popular in Spain and Spanish America. It is danced by two persons, male and female. Both dancers use castanets, though sometimes the male dancer substitutes for them a tambourine.
  2. n. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, which is triple and often based on the formula here shown: akin to the bolero, chica, seguidilla, etc.
  3. n. By extension, a ball or dance of any sort, especially in the formerly Spanish parts of the United States; hence, humorously, any noisy entertainment, with or without dancing; a jollification.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A form of flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina)
  2. n. An unknown entity or contraption
  3. n. A shade of red-violet
  4. v. To dance the fandango
  5. v. figuratively To dance, particularly with a lot of energy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
  2. n. colloq. A ball or general dance, as in Mexico.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish fandango. (Wiktionary)
  2. Spanish, possibly alteration of *fadango, from fado, from Portuguese, sad song; see fado. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Possibly in Durango. Dec 4, 2008

  • gangerh Will you do the fandango Dec 4, 2008

  • everett Very good. Dec 4, 2008

  • yarb Citation on frolicsome. Sep 20, 2008

  • yarb Monterey is also a great place for cock-fighting, gambling of all sorts, fandangos, and various kinds of amusement and knavery.
    - Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 13 Sep 6, 2008

  • roseandivy "We skipped the light fandango
    turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
    I was feeling kinda seasick
    but the crowd called out for more" Mar 19, 2008

  • uselessness My happiness is a golden poem! Mar 12, 2007

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