Flamenco

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

Origin

From Spanish flamenco.

Full definition of flamenco

Noun

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!