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Definition of fandango in English: fandangonounPlural fandangoes, Plural fandangosfanˈdaŋɡəʊfænˈdæŋɡoʊ 1A lively Spanish dance for two people, typically accompanied by castanets or tambourine. Example sentencesExamples - Other folk dances include the yuca, the sarambo, the zapateo, and the fandango.
- In a devised piece of theatre, dance and mime, The Shysters' cast of eight actors with learning disabilities present a love story set in the key of a fateful fandango.
- As Beryl remarked afterwards, if only she'd had her castanets with her she'd have been rattling away and dancing a fandango.
- Jeanette MacDonald and Archie Leach, a chores boy who will soon be known as Cary Grant, dance a fandango in Boom Boom.
- Think of castanets, foot stamping, tambourines and bright silk costumes and you have a picture of the fandango, a sexually provocative, very popular, Spanish dance.
2An elaborate or complicated process or activity. the Washington inaugural fandango Example sentencesExamples - We have pre-published books, ready to walk, talk and do the fandango several months before they actually hit the bookstores.
- We gazed at the sunset, a flame-grilled tropical sky, and watched the lights on the yachts glow, while somewhere behind us touring buskers were firing off a fandango of skirling tunes.
- Gamins, snappy in pinstripe suits and cross-culture printed silk, dress up for the evening like gypsies in a dizzy fandango of swirling, hand-painted silk ruffled skirts.
- The centre also has all the high-tech fandango - video analysis, man v ball machine - although, frankly, this is a place where the spa treatments are as important as the tennis itself.
- After two decades of surefooted dealmaking, he closed out his tenure with a bizarre fandango of wrongheaded acquisitions and strategic U-turns that devastated Tyco's share price even before his first indictment.
Origin Mid 18th century: Spanish, of unknown origin. Rhymes charango, Durango, mango, Okavango, quango, Sango, tango Definition of fandango in US English: fandangonounfanˈdaNGɡōfænˈdæŋɡoʊ 1A lively Spanish dance for two people, typically accompanied by castanets or tambourine. Example sentencesExamples - In a devised piece of theatre, dance and mime, The Shysters' cast of eight actors with learning disabilities present a love story set in the key of a fateful fandango.
- Other folk dances include the yuca, the sarambo, the zapateo, and the fandango.
- Think of castanets, foot stamping, tambourines and bright silk costumes and you have a picture of the fandango, a sexually provocative, very popular, Spanish dance.
- As Beryl remarked afterwards, if only she'd had her castanets with her she'd have been rattling away and dancing a fandango.
- Jeanette MacDonald and Archie Leach, a chores boy who will soon be known as Cary Grant, dance a fandango in Boom Boom.
2A foolish or useless act or thing. the Washington inaugural fandango Example sentencesExamples - We have pre-published books, ready to walk, talk and do the fandango several months before they actually hit the bookstores.
- We gazed at the sunset, a flame-grilled tropical sky, and watched the lights on the yachts glow, while somewhere behind us touring buskers were firing off a fandango of skirling tunes.
- Gamins, snappy in pinstripe suits and cross-culture printed silk, dress up for the evening like gypsies in a dizzy fandango of swirling, hand-painted silk ruffled skirts.
- After two decades of surefooted dealmaking, he closed out his tenure with a bizarre fandango of wrongheaded acquisitions and strategic U-turns that devastated Tyco's share price even before his first indictment.
- The centre also has all the high-tech fandango - video analysis, man v ball machine - although, frankly, this is a place where the spa treatments are as important as the tennis itself.
Origin Mid 18th century: Spanish, of unknown origin. |