joropo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]joropo (countable and uncountable, plural joropos)
- A musical style resembling the waltz, performed in Venezuela and Colombia.
- 2007 September 18, The Associated Press, “Aldemaro Romero, Composer, Dies at 79”, in New York Times[1]:
- Mr. Romero went beyond established genres as he composed a fusion of styles like bossa nova and Venezuelan joropo, and recorded with the American jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd.
- A Venezuelan dance associated with this music.
Spanish
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Noun
[edit]joropo m (plural joropos)
Further reading
[edit]- “joropo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28