Definition of paso doble in English:
paso doble
nounPlural paso dobles ˌpasə(ʊ) ˈdəʊbleɪˌpæsoʊ ˈdoʊbleɪ
1A fast-paced ballroom dance based on a Latin American style of marching.
she danced a sensuous paso doble with a handsome officer
Example sentencesExamples
- As usual, at the first opportunity, the Monkey stood up and danced a paso doble, juggling raw fish and grapes.
- Latin is the rumba, jive, paso doble, cha-cha and samba.
- Can the hip-hoppers do the paso doble; can the Latin champs do the funk?
- The Latin category consists of the rumba, cha cha, samba, paso doble and jive.
- Two energetic and angry sailfish on the line at the same time takes a certain amount of fancy footwork on a small deck and Raphael and I did a neat paso doble for about 20 minutes until both fish were tagged and released.
- 1.1 A piece of music for the paso doble, typically in duple time.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is Italian smooch-song and Spanish light music, paso doble and tango.
Origin
1920s: from Spanish, literally 'double step'.
Definition of paso doble in US English:
paso doble
nounˌpasō ˈdōblāˌpæsoʊ ˈdoʊbleɪ
1A fast-paced ballroom dance based on a Latin American style of marching.
she danced a sensuous paso doble with a handsome officer
Example sentencesExamples
- Can the hip-hoppers do the paso doble; can the Latin champs do the funk?
- Latin is the rumba, jive, paso doble, cha-cha and samba.
- Two energetic and angry sailfish on the line at the same time takes a certain amount of fancy footwork on a small deck and Raphael and I did a neat paso doble for about 20 minutes until both fish were tagged and released.
- The Latin category consists of the rumba, cha cha, samba, paso doble and jive.
- As usual, at the first opportunity, the Monkey stood up and danced a paso doble, juggling raw fish and grapes.
- 1.1 A piece of music for the paso doble, typically in duple time.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is Italian smooch-song and Spanish light music, paso doble and tango.
Origin
1920s: from Spanish, literally ‘double step’.