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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



... small steam engine, and whose principal advantage is that it burns the fingers of all who lay their profane touch upon it. After tea Madame Z. played Russian airs, very plaintive and pretty; so the evening was Muscovite from beginning to end. Madame G.'s daughter danced a tarantella, which was ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... fact, it is something you could help me with. Let us sit down here on the sofa. Look here. Tomorrow evening there is to be a fancy-dress ball at the Stenborgs', who live above us; and Torvald wants me to go as a Neapolitan fisher-girl, and dance the Tarantella that I learnt ...
— A Doll's House • Henrik Ibsen


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


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