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

There isn't just one kolo, but many of them and with a great many variations in steps.

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My mother has danced the kolo off and on for over 30 years and this idea of the table is something entirely new to her.

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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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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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A much more barbaric performance than the stately and solemn movement of the ring dance, or kolo.

From The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Wyon, Reginald