Sekirov Dictionary

flamenco

/fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

•
A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
- It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism. — 2010
•
A song or dance performed in such a style.
- La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball! — 1977

verb1

•
To dance flamenco.
- "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough." — 2010

forms

flamencoed · flamencoing · flamencos

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