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beguine
English
Etymology
From American French béguine, from French béguin.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /be???i?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /b?.??i?n/
Noun
beguine (plural beguines)
- A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.
- 1935, Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine,
- 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.
- 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69,
- It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:
- 2003, Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora, page 174,
- He is especially fascinated by the chacha, the percussion instrument that sets the basic rolling rhythmic foundation of the beguine and propels the dancers, writing that “the tempo is set by a shiny tin container filled with pebbles. […] ?
- 1935, Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine,
Translations
Finnish
Noun
beguine
- beguine (dance and music)
Declension
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