fandango

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g.…

   A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).

   • We skipped the light fandango / Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
2. 2

   A gathering for dancing

   A gathering for dancing; a ball.

   • When Auguste Fretéllière and the painter Theodore Gentilz attended a fandango in the 1840s, the festivities took place near Military Plaza.
   • Fortunately, in the nineteenth century Iosé Maria Esteva wrote a poetic and detailed account of 'La guanabana' being danced by a group of women at a fandango.
3. 3

   An unknown entity or contraption.

   • What’s that fandango you’re using?
   • She had on a new silk dress, flounced clear up to her knees, and some kind of a fandango of a thing on her shoulders.
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   1. 4

      A confusion

      A confusion; a chaotic collection.

      • A splotch of colour on a wall charmed his eye, a fandango of shadows, the nonchalant pose of some labourer.
      • Such a fandango of wicked lies Mrs. Love had never heard tell in all her born days.
   2. 5

      An extravaganza

      An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.

      • I am preparing to set out in a fortnight, or little more, and jogging on comfortably through Bavaria, Suabia, and France (with a fandango of eight days at Paris), I shall get to Calais in the first week of May.
      • Scaramouche, what a fandango of a life.
   3. 6

      A shade of red-violet.

   4. 7

      Vagina.

      • So, what? She strangled her and stuck a broken bottle up her... fandango?
   5. 8

      To dance the fandango.

   6. 9

      To dance, particularly with a lot of energy.

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