bamboulan.
/bamˈbuːlə/ (See quot. 1938.)
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > West Indies
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > timbrel or tambourine
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1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 45/2 In New Orleans..a minute's walk..will bring you to Congo square..where the negro slaves once held their bamboulas.
1883 Cent. Mag. Nov. 45/2 Every Sunday afternoon the bamboula dancers were summoned to a wood-yard.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 73/1 Bamboula, (1) a primitive negro tambourine, formerly in use in Louisiana and still in use in the West Indies. (2) A dance to which this instrument is the accompaniment.
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) iii. 26 The Congo, as such, is no longer danced in New Orleans, but it is still danced in Haiti, along with the Bamboula.
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