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
The Cancan has taken its place on the boards of every stage in the city, apparently to stay; and the exquisite jota and cachucha are giving way to the bestialities of the casino cadet.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
The young girl, her cheeks burning, stepped into the centre of the ring and struck the first graceful pose of the cachucha, learned years before at the Agency from a little Mexican serving-maid.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
As for El Oleano, this is a sort of cachucha; and it certainly gives Donna Lola Montez an opportunity of introducing herself to the public under a very captivating aspect....
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
My, but you've got that cachucha down to a science; bred, though, I guess, in your little Spanish feet.
From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson
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 A.W. Cooper
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 Horace Wyndham
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