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Tarantella

noun
1.
Music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella.
2.
A lively whirling Italian dance for two persons.  Synonym: tarantelle.





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"Tarantella" Quotes from Famous Books



... it that way here," answered Sylvia, laughing, in spite of herself, at his quiet assumption. "It's 'bridge' for money or expensive prizes; and compared to the excitement it causes, the tarantella is a sitting-down dance. I'm too stupid with cards to take the risk of playing; even mamma does not advise it yet, though she wishes to have me coached. So I shall have some time to myself after all, for my defect puts me out of three Lenten card clubs to which mamma ...
— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright


Words linked to "Tarantella" :   social dancing, dance music


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