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▪ I. fandango|fænˈdæŋgəʊ|
[a. Sp. fandango; alleged to be of Negro origin.]
1. a. A lively dance in 3/4 time, very popular in Spain and Spanish America.
17..E. Carter Lett. (1808) 138 You are twirled round in the fandango of the world. 1774F. Burney Early Diary (1189) I. 286 Upon my word, the fandango, like the allemande, requires sentiment, to dance it well. 1812S. Rogers Voy. Columbus v. 146 With gipsy maid Dancing Fandangos in the chestnut shade. 1863Ouida Held in Bondage (1870) 56 Scores of Castillian girls I have seen doing the fandango.
b. Mus. A tune to which the fandango is danced.
1800H. Wells Constantia Neville (ed. 2) I. 258 Spanish ladies, with guittars..who never had read of a fandango. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. lviii, The music commences. It is a merry air—a fandango. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. i. 10 Gluck adopted in his ballet ‘Don Juan’ a well⁓known Spanish fandango.
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1841Congress. Globe App. 25 Jan. 153/2 All the fool Federal fandangoes that disgraced the country. 1894Monthly Packet Feb. 152 The hippopotamus does not indulge in these fandangoes. 1928Blunden Undertones of War xix. 197 The usual free-verse fandango of brick mounds and water-holes.
2. A social assembly for dancing, a ball.
In 18th c. common in English use; now only U.S., or with reference to foreign countries.
1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 39 One of the most favourite amusements of the natives here, is a ball, or Fandango. 1766C. Anstey Bath Guide xiii. 14 She loves an Assembly, Fandango, or Rout. 1785Cowper Faithful Bird 33 Satisfied with noise, Fandango, ball, and rout! 1854Bartlett Mex. Boundary I. xviii. 429 A perpetual fandango was thus kept up day and night.
3. = fandangle. rare.
1856Miss Mulock Halifax x. (1859) 109 No fripperies or fandangos of any sort.
4. attrib., as fandango-bird, fandango-dancer.
1809Tales of Other Realms I. 94 We quitted the fandango dancers in disgust. 1871J. F. Hamilton in Ibis 305 The natives [of Brazil] call them Fandango birds, and say that they are in the habit of performing a dance.
▪ II. fanˈdango, v. nonce-wd.
To dance a fandango.
1834Beckford Italy II. 364 Thirteen or fourteen couples started..and fandangoed away. |