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Bolero

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A very short jacket worn open in the front.

n. A lively Spanish dance in triple meter.

n. The music for this dance.

n. A slow Latin American dance, often in duple meter.

n. The music for this dance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a lively Spanish dance

n. a type of short, buttonless jacket or blouse, open or tied in front and ending at the diaphragm

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

n. A kind of small outer jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by women.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A Spanish dance in ¾ time, accompanied by the voice and castanets, intended to represent the course of love from extreme shyness to extreme passion.

n. A musical composition for such a dance.

n. A short jacket, ending about three inches above the waist-line: originally in imitation of the Spanish jacket, but now-made in many fashions, and trimmed either simply or with extremely elaborate ornament.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance

n. a short jacket; worn mostly by women

n. a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets

Word Usage

""It's a kind of bolero jacket with beads all over it," Ms. McCord told the Daily Transom about the jacket that she bought at an estate sale about a decade ago."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dance music jacket stage dancing choreography

Rhyme

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