English
beguine
see also: Beguine
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /beɪˈɡiːn/
  • (America) IPA: /bə.ˈɡiːn/
Noun

beguine (plural beguines)

  1. A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.
    • 1935, Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine,
      When they begin the beguine, / It brings back the sound of music so tender / It brings back the night of tropical splendor, / It brings back a memory ever green.
    • 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69 ↗,
      It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:
    • 2003, Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora, page 174 ↗,
      He is especially fascinated by the chacha, the percussion instrument that sets the basic rolling rhythmic foundation of the beguine and propels the dancers, writing that “the tempo is set by a shiny tin container filled with pebbles. […] ″
Translations
  • French: beguine
  • German: Beguine
  • Italian: beguine
  • Russian: беги́н
  • Spanish: beguine
Translations
  • French: beguine
  • Spanish: beguine
Beguine
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /beɪˈɡiːn/
Noun

beguine (plural beguines)

  1. (historical) A member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order active in Northern Europe, particularly in the Low Countries in the 13th–16th centuries.
    Coordinate term: Beghard#English|Beghard
Related terms Translations
  • French: béguin, béguine
  • German: Begine, Beguine
  • Italian: beghino, beghina
  • Spanish: beguino, beguina


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