calinda

English

Alternative forms

• kalenda
• kalinda

Noun

calinda (uncountable)

1. An African-American style of dance (or its associated music) in the southern US and parts of Latin America.
   • 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books 2009, p. 74:

     The British colonies did not permit these dances, so the calinda and the bamboula did not flourish in the plantation societies of Virginia and Carolina.

2. A Caribbean martial art involving stickfighting.

Anagrams

• calanid