guajira

[ gwah-heer-uh; Spanish gwah-hee-rah ]

noun

, plural gua·ji·ras [gwah-, heer, -, uh, z, gwah-, hee, -, r, ahs].

1. a Cuban peasant dance with shifting rhythms.

Word History and Origins

Origin of guajira¹

First recorded in 1920–25; from Latin American Spanish (Cuba): literally, “peasant woman”

Example Sentences

But let us hasten, or else we shall lose our Guajiro and Guajira in the crowd in the fiesta, and that would be a sad pity.

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