flamenco en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).
Meanings
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(uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
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.
2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020: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 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian:
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(countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| flamencos | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
flamencolike · flamenco guitar · flamencology
Relateds
Translations (42)
cmn 佛拉明柯 (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ru фламе́нко (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ca flamenc (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · hu flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ar فَلَامِنْكُو (a song or a dance in such a style) · cs flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · hy ֆլամենկո (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · nl flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ko 플라멩코 (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · fr flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · hy ֆլամենկո (a song or a dance in such a style) · es flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ca flamenc (a song or a dance in such a style) · br flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · mr फ्लामेंको (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ja フラメンコ (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · pt flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · es flamenco (a song or a dance in such a style) · ro flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · pl flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · id Flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ur فلامینکو (a song or a dance in such a style) · de Flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · cmn 弗拉明戈 (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · eo flamenko (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · gl flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · pl flamenco (a song or a dance in such a style) · mr फ्लामेंको (a song or a dance in such a style) · it flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · et flamenko (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · sv flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ru фламе́нко (a song or a dance in such a style) · eu flamenko (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · la flamencum (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · tr flamenko (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · ar فَلَامِنْكُو (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · vi Flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · el φλαμένκο (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · cmn 弗拉门戈 (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · hi फ़्लामेंको (a song or a dance in such a style) · da flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain) · fi flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)