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Definition of Paso doble

1. Noun. A ballroom dance in fast duple time.

2. Noun. Music in march time composed for dancing the paso doble; often played at bull fights.

Definition of Paso doble

1. Noun. A fast Spanish ballroom dance in double time ¹

2. Noun. the music for such a dance, or for a march; used especially at bullfights ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paso Doble

pashmak pashmina pashminas pashms pasigraphic pasigraphical pasigraphy pasilaly pasilla pasillas

pasin pasiniazide paska paskha paskhas paso doble (current term) paso dobles pasodoble pasodobles paspalism

paspalum paspalums paspies paspy pasque pasque flower pasque flowers pasqueflower pasqueflowers pasquil

Literary usage of Paso doble

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"tornillo d> rencial de Hunter. dip of the —, inmersión de la hélice. double threaded—, tornillo de paso doble ..."

2. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1904)
"... has generally studied for 104 The Spanish is paso doble, a term used also as the name of a dance, the equivalent of the " two-step. ..."

3. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1904)
"... has generally studied for 104 The Spanish is paso doble, a term used also as the name of a dance, the equivalent of the " two-step. ..."

4. The Music of Spain by Carl Van Vechten (1918)
"... (paso-doble). The tunes have little distinction; nor can the orchestration be considered brilliant. There is a great deal of noise and ..."

5. Music and Bad Manners by Carl Van Vechten (1916)
"There is an introduction and polka, a waltz, a tango, a jota, a mazurka, a schottische, another waltz, and a two-step (paso-doble). ..."

6. Terry's Mexico: Handbook for Travellers by Thomas Philip Terry (1909)
"A minute later they again emerge by the opposite entrance; the band, perched aloft among the andanadas, strikes up a stirring paso-doble, and now begins the ..."

7. The Land of the Castanet: Spanish Sketches by Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1896)
"Some for one person, some in which two (a man and a girl) face each other and dance a paso doble, or others like the Fandango, in which a number take part. ..."

8. The Land of the Castanet: Spanish Sketches by Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1896)
"Some for one person, some in which two (a man and a girl) face each other and dance a paso doble, or others like the Fandango, in which a number take part. ..."

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