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‖ hora|ˈhɔərə|
Also horah, horra.
[Rom. horă; Heb. hōrāh.]
A Romanian and Israeli round-dance; the music or song to which it is performed.
1878J. W. Ozanne Three Yrs. in Roumania xii. 157 The hora, the Roumanian dance par excellence. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 849 The popular songs of Rumania, the ‘doine’, the ‘hora’, [etc.]. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. 20 Oct. 745/1 The favourite amusement of the Roumanian peasant is his dance, especially the traditional ‘hora’ danced in a circle. 1925Countries of World V. 3431/2 Laughing girls..ready to dance the ‘hora’ with the men [in Rumania]. 1946Koestler Thieves in Night viii. 61 [They] had formed the first ring of the horra, the stamping and swaying round-dance, a savage ring-polka. Ibid. 352 They were singing one of the popular horras, a folk-song with a passionate, almost hysterical tune. 1960A. Wesker I'm talking about Jerusalem (1961) iii. ii. 49 Let's do an Israeli dance..(Starts doing a Zanny Hora on his own). 1967Guardian 15 July 6/2 Can you think of any other Army where officers and enlisted men would dance the hora together? 1967Observer 8 Jan. 23/4 Catchy, minor-key hora strummings. 1969New Yorker 6 Sept. 117/1 There is a scholarly argument over whether the Rumanian hora predates the Hebrew hora or vice versa. A diplomatic Rumanian-style answer is that both are of Mediterranean origin, the hora having been brought to Rumania by the Roman legions. 1971Observer 17 Jan. 21/7 You were building, building, building. And on Friday nights I [sc. Mrs. Golda Meir] danced the Horah into the night. |