| 释义 |
noun beɪˈɡiːn A popular dance of Caribbean origin, similar to the foxtrot. Example sentencesExamples - Like many Latin dances, the beguine emphasizes the ability to roll the hips while stepping, evoking sensuality.
- At night, party-goers dance the beguine, which was born in Martinique and reveals the islands soul.
- She refused to begin the beguine when they besought her to
- Spike wrote: ‘We present a very colourful act in rhumba costume and our numbers comprise sambas, beguines, rhumbas etc.’
Origin 1930s: from West Indian French, from French béguin 'infatuation'. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, wean, ween, Wheen, yean nounbeɪˈɡiːn (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood in the Low Countries, not bound by vows. Example sentencesExamples - In a fascinating appendix he profiles some Beguine women who had associations with the Spirituals, and throughout the text he warns against a tendency to see every upholder of evangelical poverty as either a heretic or even a Spiritual.
- Mechthild of Magdeburg was a member of a Beguine community.
Origin Late 15th century: Old French béguine, from the name of Lambert Bègue or le Bègue (‘the Stammerer’), a 12th-century priest who founded the order. nounbəˈɡēn A popular dance of West Indian origin, similar to the foxtrot. Example sentencesExamples - Spike wrote: ‘We present a very colourful act in rhumba costume and our numbers comprise sambas, beguines, rhumbas etc.’
- She refused to begin the beguine when they besought her to
- Like many Latin dances, the beguine emphasizes the ability to roll the hips while stepping, evoking sensuality.
- At night, party-goers dance the beguine, which was born in Martinique and reveals the islands soul.
Origin 1930s: from West Indian French, from French béguin ‘infatuation’. nounbəˈɡēn (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood in the Low Countries, not bound by vows. Example sentencesExamples - In a fascinating appendix he profiles some Beguine women who had associations with the Spirituals, and throughout the text he warns against a tendency to see every upholder of evangelical poverty as either a heretic or even a Spiritual.
- Mechthild of Magdeburg was a member of a Beguine community.
Origin Late 15th century: Old French béguine, from the name of Lambert Bègue or le Bègue (‘the Stammerer’), a 12th-century priest who founded the order. |