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Fandango   Listen
noun
Fandango  n.  (pl. fandangoes)  
1.
A lively dance, in 3-8 or 6-8 time, much practiced in Spain and Spanish America. Also, the tune to which it is danced.
2.
A ball or general dance, as in Mexico. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fandango" Quotes from Famous Books



... just as he explained instances of extraordinary reasoning power in a dog by calling it "instinct." Whatever Mrs. Temperley might do was slightly eccentric, and had she suddenly taken it into her head to dance a fandango on the public road, it would have merely put a little extra ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... fandango in a neighboring booth provided relaxation for the gamblers. In an hour or two Reinaldo found his way to this well-known haven. Black-eyed dancing-girls in short skirts of tawdry satin trimmed with cotton lace, mock ...
— The Doomswoman - An Historical Romance of Old California • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... which was to bring to him all that he knew of this world's festivals: the chanted high mass, the game of pelota before the assembled village, then, at last, the dance of the evening with Gracieuse, the fandango in the ...
— Ramuntcho • Pierre Loti

... time; and can preach, too." M'Fadden shakes his head exultingly! "Can put in the big licks preachin'; and I'ze goin' t' let 'im, once in a while. Goin' t' have good times on my place, boys—ha'h! Got a jug of whiskey to have a fandango when ye gits home. Got it somewhere, I knows." Mr. M'Fadden exults over the happy times his boys have at home. He shakes himself all over, like a polar bear just out of the water, and laughs heartily. He has delivered himself of something that makes everybody else laugh; the mania has caught ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams

... rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere[obs3]; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis [U.S.], break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig* [U.S.]; skirtdance[obs3], stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop[obs3], galopade[obs3]; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey[obs3]; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



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