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Definition of Habaneras
1. habanera [n] - See also: habanera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habaneras
Literary usage of Habaneras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1888)
"... flower in her dark hair, so slight and fragile that he could scarce feel her
weight as she clung to him, slowly turning in the never-ending habaneras ? ..."
2. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"... eyed habaneras in general. She is staying with a cousin at Jesus del Monte (it
is a sort of suburb of Havana, and is situated on a height, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... I sat over the left, and gazed my fill at the splendid forms and swimming eyes
of the habaneras, occasionally looking up at the ..."
4. The Digressions of V. by Elihu Vedder (1910)
"And then — the dancing; the yearning, passionate music of the habaneras, and the
perfect time shuffled out by feet never taken from the floor, and seemingly ..."
5. Travels in the West: Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade by David Turnbull (1840)
"... fully with the habaneras, who, from the effect of old associations and
established connections, the similarity of tastes and habits, and the uniformity ..."
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