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Bolero

noun

Music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance.

A short jacket; worn mostly by women.

A Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets.

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"Bolero" Quotes from Famous Books

... gambling and dancing beneath the walls than keeping watch upon the battlements, and nothing was heard from morning till night but the noisy contests of cards and dice, mingled with the sound of the bolero or fandango, the drowsy strumming of the guitar, and the rattling of the castanets, while often the whole was interrupted by the loud brawl ...

— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

... opera-dancer may be expected to reach below the knee, yet the drapery of a Limanese Terpsichore appears to have attained even an ultra degree of curtailment. The representation of ballets, properly so called, is not attempted; but the Bolero, the Fandango, the Cachucha, and Don Mateo, are ...

— Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests • J. J. von Tschudi

Words linked to "Bolero" : choreography, dance music, stage dancing, jacket