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▪ I. rumba, n.|ˈrʌmbə|
Also rhumba.
[Amer. Sp.]
An Afro-Cuban dance; a ballroom dance imitative of this, danced on the spot with a pronounced movement of the hips. Also, the dance rhythm of the rumba; a musical composition with this rhythm. Also transf.
1922J. Hergesheimer Bright Shawl 112 Her life..was incredibly, wildly, debauched. Among other things, she danced, as the mulata, the rumba, an indescribable affair. 1926Nation 15 Sept. 242/1 A half-dressed couple behind a slide window dancing the rumba. 1932New Yorker 9 Apr. 39/2 Ceruse's tango band reminds you of every illicit Paris bender you ever had. Rumbas and tangos abound. 1934H. Michael Peace without Honour in J. W. Marriott Best One-Act Plays of 1933 135 Put on a dance record... It's a rumba. Will that do? 1939[see beguine2]. 1950A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll (1952) ii. 79 Time seemed to flow like a dreamy rhumba. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz iii. 26 The rhumba, which is by far the most popular outside of Cuba, is consistently diluted for Western ears and has become a fixture at fashionable American night clubs. 1958E. Borneman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 264 Ellington..started it all in 1930 with his jazz rumba Maori. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 716/1 Best known for the dancers' subtle side to side hip movements with the torso erect, the rumba is danced with a basic pattern of two quick side steps and a slow forward step. 1980Tablet 26 Jan. 84/2 A group of liturgical dancers swathed in white, practising the Our Father dance. No doubt this particular excursion into religious rumba was absurd.
b. slang. A spree.
Perhaps an erroneous use.
1934E. Hemingway in Cosmopolitan Apr. 108/3 He'd been giving the nigger a dollar a day and the nigger had been on a rumba every night. I could see him getting sleepy already.
2. attrib. and Comb., as rumba band, rumba competition, rumba dancer, rumba orchestra, rumba record, rumba rhythm; rumba-box (see quot. 1961).
1944H. McCloy Panic 110 The swish of a sand⁓filled gourd in a *rhumba band. 1967O. Lancaster With an Eye to Future v. 119 The strains of ‘Peanut Vendor’ played by one of the newly fashionable rumba bands. 1976Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 4 Jan. 2/2 As far as we know the African Bongo Tribe made the first bongo drums for the latter use in the modern rhumba band.
1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk xii. 266 As for the *rumba-box..it is a recent invention or importation which simulates the tones of the bass viol by means of four pieces of metal of different gauges attached to a box (the resonance chamber), which vibrate when they are plucked with the fingers, and are tuned to correspond to the strings. 1976G. Sims End of Web x. 69 The Rastafarians with their home-made drums and rumba-boxes.
1944M. Sharp Cluny Brown xix. 130 She entered for a *Rumba competition.
1973Black World Sept. 12/2 Giullén captured the vitality of Afro-Cuban life in a series of ‘sones’ (songs) which deal with cane cutters, *rumba dancers, and folk types.
1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? xi. 271 He was..dancing with her out on the patio to the *rhumba orchestra.
1972J. McClure Caterpillar Cop viii. 118 Lisbet had to raise her voice..above the *rhumba record to catch his attention.
1932Radio Times 8 Apr. 129 There is Southern glamour in the *Rumba Rhythm of a tango tune. 1957Encycl. Brit. VII. 23/2 The Rumba rhythm: one, two, three, pause; one, two, three, pause. 1970W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) 744/1 After 1930 rumba rhythms were incorporated into jazz.
▪ II. ˈrumba, v.
Also rhumba.
[f. the n.]
intr. To dance the rumba. Also, to move as though dancing the rumba.
1938G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 66 The tune the band was playing, the crowd on the floor trying to rumba. 1944M. Sharp Cluny Brown xxiv. 156 Belinski at once rose, grasped the girl round the waist, and then began to rumba. 1951E. Taylor Game of Hide-&-Seek ii. i. 120 ‘Englishwomen should never rumba,’ he told her. 1961G. Durrell Whispering Land iii. 85 He [sc. a fur seal] decided that the seagull should be taught a lesson, so he humped himself up indignantly and rumbaed towards it ferociously. 1970V. Canning Great Affair vii. 111 You once taught two boys to rhumba. |