cachucha
Americannoun
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cachuchas
plural
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an Andalusian dance resembling the bolero.
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the music for this dance.
noun
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a graceful Spanish solo dance in triple time
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music composed for this dance
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Etymology
Origin of cachucha
1830–40; < Spanish: perhaps literally, fragment; of obscure origin
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After the cachucha is simmered until soft, the bones are removed.
From Time Magazine Archive
So good-bye, cachucha, fandango, bolero— We'll dance a farewell to that measure— Old Xeres, adieu—Manzanilla—Montero— We leave you with feelings of pleasure!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
This time the bill consisted of a comedy, Der Weiberseind von Benedix, followed by a cachucha and a fandango with Herr Opsermann for a dancing-partner.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace
I saw Fanny Elssler dance the cracovienne and the cachucha, and it is a memory which will linger with me always.
From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian
The sermon may dwell on the future, The organ your pulses may calm— When—pest!—that remember'd cachucha Upsets both the sermon and psalm!
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
The paintings in the chapel wear thy looks, The canticles are changed to sarabands, And with the leaned doctors of the schools I see thee dance cachuchas.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The fact was, the Parisians, accustomed to the dreamy and sylph-like pirouettings of Cerito and Elssler and Taglioni, and their own Adèle Dumilâtre, could not appreciate the vigorous cachuchas and boleros now offered them.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Wyndham, Horace
Musicians appeared, and, with much spirit, boleros, fandangos, and cachuchas, and other dances, well-known in Old Spain, were commenced and kept up for some hours.
From Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by Cooper, A.W.
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