flamenco
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/
flamenco
- (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
- 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:
- 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.
- 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:
- (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
- 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:
- 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!
- 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:
- French: flamenco
- German: Flamenco
- Italian: flamenco
- Portuguese: flamenco
- Russian: фламе́нко
- Spanish: flamenco
- Russian: фламе́нко
- Spanish: flamenco
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