Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as tarantella.

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Examples

  • Were American cities really eager for municipal art, they would cherish as genuine beginnings the tarentella danced so interminably at

    The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets Jane Addams 1897

  • And have we not the tarentella, a lively and nimble dance, bequeathed to us perhaps by the healing art of the Calabrian peasant?

    The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • She was explaining at the same time, with much animation, how this tarentella was danced, giving a rapid outline of the steps, the gestures and the attitudes; then, suddenly carried away by the ardor of her narrative:

    Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume Octave Feuillet 1855

  • He played the tarentella, that began with a sort of slow and measured ballet-step, which

    Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume Octave Feuillet 1855

  • One of these tunes having reminded her of a sort of tarentella she had seen danced by some women at Procida, she requested her husband to play it.

    Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume Octave Feuillet 1855

  • Chapman, maybe if you stop providing the soapbox, this absurd tarentella will cease the foolishness. "

    unknown title 2009

  • Chapman, maybe if you stop providing the soapbox, this absurd tarentella will cease the foolishness. "

    unknown title 2009

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