单词 | pascola |
释义 | pascolan.adj. A. n. A traditional Yaqui dance usually performed at festivals and weddings; a performer of this dance.The dance consists of a rhythmic shuffling of the feet performed to music by one or more masked men wearing rattles around their ankles. Performers may also act as hosts and general entertainers at the celebrations. Their masks usually represent a goat. 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 1904 Amer. Anthropologist 6 68 Velasco..mentioned four special Yaqui dances, the ‘Tesguin’ (Tesvino), ‘Pascola’, ‘Venado’, and ‘Coyote’. 1949 A. Joseph et al. Study Papago Indians 85 (note) On special occasions the Papago hire pascolas from Arizona Yaqui villages to dance for them. 1971 R. Moisés et al. Tall Candle ix. 147 While the Morom game is going on, two groups of dancers are also performing, four pascolas and a deer dancer in each group. 2000 Jrnl. Southwest (Nexis) 42 635 The Yaqui dance incorporates traditional native ensembles..as well as European-derived instruments (violin/harp) for the pascola. B. adj. (attributive). Of or designating a pascola. ΚΠ 1934 Amer. Anthropologist 36 502 A wide leather belt with pendant bits of metal on strips of rawhide, imitating belts worn by Pascolas dancers. 1959 R. C. Owen Marobavi 48 Traveling Yaquis..are known to have put on pascola dances in Marobavi. 1992 Atlantic May 90/1 He called it pascola music, a dying tradition, and said his brother-in-law is one of the greats. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1904 |
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