hula

[ hoo-luh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a sinuous Hawaiian dance with intricate arm movements that tell a story in pantomime, usually danced to rhythmic drumming and accompanied by chanting.

hula

/ ˈhuːlə /

Origin of hula¹

Borrowed into English from Hawaiian around 1815–25

Origin of hula¹

from Hawaiian

Stacked cylinders form a base beneath her feet and loosely roll about as she juggles objects and weaves in and out of hula-hoops.

Her kind-of-hula-dancing/kind-of-casting-a-spell hand choreography?

[ELLE UK] Chanel Hula Hoop Makes Street Appearance: The Chanel Hula Hoop has finally made its street-style debut.

And the Chanel Hula Hoop bag appears at New York Fashion Week.

That results in Ed Henry hula dancing on-air and other fluff segments.

Youngsters are taught everything from the hula, hat-weaving and coconut crafts to the Hawaiian alphabet song.

The hula pa-hua was a dance of the classical times that has long been obsolete.

Both olapa and hoopaa took part in the performance of this hula.

Of the 262 hula performances listed for exhibition, some 30 were of the hula ku'i.

Ami (-mi)--to bend; a bodily motion used in the hula (note, p. 202).

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