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tarantella

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"Italian dance"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ˌtɛɹənˈtɛlə/Part of speech nounSorted aaaellnrttStarts with TEnds with A1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons

Word origin

Borrowed from Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”), on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).

Used in a sentence

  • The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.
  • "A tarantella, I presume?" blandly suggested the doctor. Miss Mannersley stopped, and rose carelessly from the piano. "It is a Moorish gypsy song of the fifteenth century," she said dryly.

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