kolo

American  

[koh-loh] / ˈkoʊ loʊ /

noun

plural

kolos

1. a Serbian folk dance performed by a group arranged in a circle, with the soloists in the center.

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kolo British  

/ ˈkəʊləʊ /

noun

1. a Serbian folk dance in which a circle of people dance slowly around one or more dancers in the centre

2. a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance

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Etymology

Origin of kolo

1910–15; < Serbo-Croatian kȍlo literally, circle, wheel

Example Sentences

The crowds danced the wild Serbian kolo until they were exhausted.

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The two leaders did just about everything else, as they ranged the country from quake-shattered Skoplje to wild Montenegro, where after a picnic the mountainfolk broke into the kolo, a fiery, foot-stamping circle dance.

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The kolo is far from what you seem to think it is in both form and spirit.

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Whether intentionally or not, you hereby give a definition of the kolo which places it in a somewhat ridiculous light.

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E kolo ana ka pali o Makua-iki; 249 Kolo o Pu-�, he keiki, He keiki makua-ole ke uwe nei.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright