beguine

noun1

1. •
   a ballroom dance like a slow rumba and the music for it, both coming from the French islands of the Caribbean

   • When they begin the beguine, / It brings back the sound of music so tender / It brings back the night of tropical splendor, / It brings back a memory ever green. — 1935

noun1

1. •
   (historical) A member of a semimonastic Christian lay religious order active in Northern Europe, particularly in the Low Countries in the 13th–16th centuries.