jotan.

1846 A. Robinson Life in Calif. iii. 23 Singing or whistling the air of some favorite ‘jota’.

1850 E. G. Buffum Six Months in Gold Mines 143 Often have I seen little girls, scarce six years of age, flying through a cotillon..or dancing with great skill their favourite jotah or jarabe.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 374/2 The Jota is the national dance of Aragon.

1902 Contemp. Rev. July 82 The Spanish seguidillas, jotas, and fandangoes.

1912 J. E. C. Flitch Mod. Dancing xiii. 195 The Spanish dance is intensely national. The snapping of the castanets, the short and insolent skirt, the exciting rhythm of the music, do not alone suffice for the performance of the jota or fandango, as some foreign artists would appear to suppose.

1922 J. Hergesheimer Bright Shawl (1923) 12 The air..was Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody. The accent of its measure, the jota, was at once perceptible and immaterial.

1960 Spectator 16 Dec. 988 Antonio's own solo numbers have vitality, and the company's final jota is attractive.

1967 ‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) ii. 36 It is said that the Jota, ‘the fastest dance in the world’, is less a dance than an endurance contest.