pizzica
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian pizzica.
Noun
[edit]pizzica
- (dance) A popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula.
- 2007 January 19, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
- With strings, accordion, flute and lots of tambourine, it pays particular attention to the pizzica, a galloping six-beat dance related to the tarantella and long used as a faith-healing cure for spider bites.
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]pizzica f (plural pizziche)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: pizzica
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]pizzica
- inflection of pizzicare:
Further reading
[edit]pizzica on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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