csardas
/ˈtʃɑːdaʃ
/ /ˈzɑːdəs /(also czardas)
noun (plural same)
A Hungarian dance with a slow introduction and a fast, wild finish.The folk dances finding their accompaniment to this music - the Hungarian czardas, the Polish mazurka, the German waltz, the Russian trepak, and even English Morris dancing - have a recognizably formalized shape....
- He caps them with the theme rewritten as a polka/waltz, a tango, a czardas, in ragtime, and ‘in the style of film music.’
- He would rise sharply into a fifth sous-sus to explode into a buoyant jump, peppered with the gigue, czardas, or mazurka of his beloved character dance.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Hungarian csárdás, from csárda 'inn'.