flamenco

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  1. noun A dance style of the Andalusian Gypsies characterized by forceful, often improvised rhythms.
  2. noun A dance in this style.
  3. noun The guitar music that usually accompanies a dance in this style.

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  • Based on speaking to really rich but really naive people, I have identified the best options available to Ms Wong.For a ridiculous sum roughly equivalent to her divorce settlement, Jessica Simpson will teach you a new dancesport called roller-flamenco.
  • She then briefly moved her feet as though she were dancing the flamenco, and the two lovers nestled back into their bunk. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
  • Amargos knows flamenco, and he is very attached to his roots. —  SFist
  • I think it would be fair to say that before Paco de Lucia introduced his sextet to the world, complete with flutes, bongos and fretless electric bass, the average person on the street had a rough idea of what flamenco was about. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • But, as acknowledged by the mayor of Seville before the show, flamenco was a foreign culture for only few audience members.
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  1. Spanish, Flemish, from Middle Dutch Vlāming, Fleming.

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  1. Spanish flamenco, flamingo. The fish is so named in allusion to its red color.
 

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/flɑˈmɛnkoʊ/
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