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paso doble|ˌpaso ˈdoble|
Also (erron.) pasa doble, and as one word.
[f. Sp. paso step + doble double.]
A quick Spanish dance-step; the music for such a dance.
1927V. Silvester Mod. Ballroom Dancing 121 The Paso Doble is danced very little in this country, but it is popular in certain parts of the Continent. It is often referred to as the Spanish one-step. The walk is short and springy, not unlike a very modified Quickstep. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 94 The Russian folk dance gives way to the pasodoblé of the street band. 1939E. Ambler Mask of Dimitrios vi. 101 An accordion band was playing a paso-doble. 1948F. Borrows Theory & Technique Lat.-Amer. Dancing iv. 156 Paso Doble music is in march time. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions iii. iii. 771 An old man with a battered guitar..had two tunes, one a vaguely recognizable pasa doble. 1959Listener 18 June 1059/2 The band plays a tinny paso doble. 1971New Scientist 22 Apr. 219/1 The only sensuality indulged..would be a quick routine or two from the pas a doble [sic] or the slow foxtrot. 1973Times 23 Apr. 6/2 The baby-faced couples who dance the samba..and Pasodoble..are sometimes a bit short of Latin-American fire. 1974Times 7 Jan. 5/8 There is Italian smooch-song and Spanish light music, pasadoble and tango. 1975‘M. Fonteyn’ Autobiogr. I. iii. 35 At every tea-dance in the..Hotel we waltzed and fox-trotted and danced the paso-doble, he so tall and me a little shrimp of eleven years. |