When they begin the beguine, / It brings back the sound of music so tender / It brings back the night of tropical splendor, / It brings back a memory ever green.
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Beguine
//bəˈɡiːn//
Synonyms for "beguine"
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28 translations across 11 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- beguí noun (Translations)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 比根 noun (ballroom dance)
- 比根舞 noun (ballroom dance)
- 比跟音乐 noun (music)
- 比跟音樂 noun (music)
Dutch
2 entries- begijn noun (Translations)
- beguine noun (music)
Finnish
2 entries- beguine noun (ballroom dance)
- beguine noun (music)
French
4 entries- beguine noun (ballroom dance)
- beguine noun (music)
- béguin noun (Translations)
- béguine noun (Translations)
Georgian
2 entries- ბეგინი noun (ballroom dance)
- ბეგინი noun (music)
German
3 entries- Begine noun (Translations)
- Beguine noun (ballroom dance)
- Beguine noun (Translations)
Italian
3 entries- beghina noun (Translations)
- beghino noun (Translations)
- beguine noun (ballroom dance)
Polish
2 entries- beginka noun (Translations)
- beguine noun (ballroom dance)
Russian
1 entries- беги́н noun (ballroom dance)
Spanish
4 entries- beguina noun (Translations)
- beguine noun (ballroom dance)
- beguine noun (music)
- beguino noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
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1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69, It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:
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He is especially fascinated by the chacha, the percussion instrument that sets the basic rolling rhythmic foundation of the beguine and propels the dancers, writing that “the tempo is set by a shiny tin container filled with pebbles.[…]″
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