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‖ Romalis|rəʊˈmɑːlɪs|
[Sp.]
A Spanish gypsy dance (see quots.). Also, the music of this dance.
1841Borrow Zincali I. vi. 317 Chicharona danced the Romalis (Gypsy dance) before her. 1846[see ole]. 1889L. A. Smith Through Romany Songland 54 The famous Romalis, the dance which Tiberius may have seen, and which no one but a gipsy dances in Spain. It is danced to the ancient Oriental music of hand-clapping, and to an old religious Eastern tune, low and melancholy, diatonic, not chromatic, and full of sudden pauses which are strange and startling. It is sung in unison, and has a chorus in which every one joins. 1967‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) v. 74 This Romalis is part of a wedding ceremonial. The melody is Eastern; diatonic, low, melancholy and with sudden breathtaking pauses. Some..even identify it with the dance which Salome did before Herod. |