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flamenco

Best crossword clue

"Andalusian dance"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/Part of speech nounSorted aceflmnoStarts with FEnds with O1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A Spanish music and dance style with strong rhythms and expressive movement.

Word origin

Borrowed from Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).

Used in a sentence

  • It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
  • Among the dancers, who joined in periodically, the outlier wasn’t the Spanish flamenco dancer, Jesús Carmona (in town for the Flamenco Festival at City Center), so much as the New York salsero, Eddie Torres Jr.
  • La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

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