flamenco

See also Flamenco

English

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

Noun

flamenco (plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

Translations

a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain

Armenian: ֆլամենկո (hy) (flamenko) Catalan: flamenc (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 佛拉明柯舞曲 (zh) Dutch: flamenco (nl) m. German: Flamenco (de) m.

Japanese: フラメンコ (ja) Korean: 플라멩코 (ko) (peullamengko) Russian: фламенко (ru) (flamenko) Spanish: flamenco (es) m.

a song or a dance in such a style

See also

• fandango

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /flaˈmenko/

Adjective

flamenco m. (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish

Noun

flamenco m. (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco
3. Flemish (person and or language)