单词 | fandango |
释义 | fandangon. 1. a. A lively dance in ¾ time, very popular in Spain and Spanish America. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > Latin America fandango1766 jarabe1834 zamacueca1855 pascola1904 marinera1911 cueca1912 son montuno1947 pachanga1956 lambada1988 1766 E. Carter Let. 1 July in Series of Lett. E. Carter & C. Talbot (1808) II. 138 You are twirled round in the fandango of the world. 1774 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 286 Upon my Word, the Fandango, like the Allemande, requires sentiment to Dance it well. 1812 S. Rogers Voy. Columbus (rev. ed.) v. 26 With gipsy-maid Dancing Fandangos in the chestnut shade. 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. iv. 104 Scores of Castillian girls I have seen doing the fandango. b. Music. A tune to which the fandango is danced. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > folk or country dance > Latin-American fandango1800 zamacueca1855 habanera1878 rumba1912 tango1913 milonga1914 guajira1923 samba1929 son1931 son Afro-Cubano1942 mambo1946 Afro1949 montuno1951 cha-cha1954 guaracha1956 pachanga1956 bossa nova1962 salsa1975 songo1978 1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville I. x. 267 Spanish ladies, with guittars..who never had read of a fandango. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters III. xvii. 224 The playing commences. It is a merry air—a fandango. 1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music i. 10 Gluck adopted in his ballet ‘Don Juan’ a well~known Spanish fandango. c. fig. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > instance of flim-flam1546 delirium1599 bull1640 nonsense1646 fandango1841 fiddlededee1843 flapdoodle1878 1841 Congress. Globe App. 25 Jan. 153/2 All the fool Federal fandangoes that disgraced the country. 1894 Monthly Packet Feb. 152 The hippopotamus does not indulge in these fandangoes. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War xix. 197 The usual free-verse fandango of brick mounds and water-holes. 2. A social assembly for dancing, a ball.In 18th c. common in English use; now only U.S., or with reference to foreign countries. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] treschec1290 hoppingc1330 dancec1385 ball?1605 ballet1657 dancing-match1740 dancing-assembly1765 fandango1766 dancing-party1852 German1853 rag1899 ngoma1905 rat race1937 1766 C. Anstey New Bath Guide xiii. i. 89 She loves an Assembly, Fandango, or Rout. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 39 One of the most favourite amusements of the natives here, is a ball, or Fandango. 1785 W. Cowper Faithful Bird 33 Satisfied with noise, Fandango, ball, and rout! 1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. Texas I. xviii. 429 A perpetual fandango was thus kept up day and night. 3. = fandangle n. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > fantastic or affected conceit1463 fangle1583 crotchet1611 foppery1711 whigmaleery1793 quipa1822 dandification1827 fandangle1835 fandango1856 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. x. 216 No fripperies or fandangos of any sort. 4. attrib., as fandango-bird, fandango-dancer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills) > member of (ibis) ibis1382 fandango-bird1871 1809 Tales of Other Realms I. 94 We quitted the fandango dancers in disgust. 1871 J. F. Hamilton in Ibis 305 The natives [of Brazil] call them Fandango birds, and say that they are in the habit of performing a dance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2014). fandangov. To dance a fandango.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [verb (intransitive)] > Latin American dance fandango1834 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 364 Thirteen or fourteen couples started..and fandangoed away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < |
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