jota
noun
a Spanish dance in triple meter, performed by a couple and marked by complex rhythms executed with the heels and castanets.
jotas
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pluralof jota.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Enrique Granados y Campina named his Goyescas after one of his favorite painters, lavishing the color and romanticism of old melodic Spanish fandangos and jotas on his sometimes morbid, more often gay suites.
From Time Magazine Archive
The jotas continued and the scent of mignonette increased.
From The Bright Shawl by Joseph Hergesheimer
