cachucha
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of cachucha
1830–40; < Spanish: perhaps literally, fragment; of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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After the cachucha is simmered until soft, the bones are removed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 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 Hay, John
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 White, Stewart Edward
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