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Definition of Rhumba
1. Noun. Syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba.
2. Verb. Dance the rhumba. "Sam and Sue rhumba"
Generic synonyms: Dance, Trip The Light Fantastic, Trip The Light Fantastic Toe
3. Noun. A folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement.
4. Noun. A ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance.
Definition of Rhumba
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of rumba) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhumba
1. to rumba [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: rumba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhumba
Literary usage of Rhumba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Life in Canara and Ganjam by Gordon Sullivan Forbes (1885)
"NEAR the town of rhumba, on a park- like slope which rises gently from the southern
shore of the lake, stands a large two-storied house, ..."
2. Black Music and Musicians in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and by Dominique-René De Lerma, Marsha J. Reisser (1989)
"rhumba HDM. See: Rumba Rhythm-and-blues Grove B HDM [Rhythm and blues] B ...
See: Rock HDM Rock steady Grove Rumba Grove [rhumba] B HDM St. Louis Grove—2. ..."
3. Stray Leaves from the Diary of an Indian Officer: Containing an Account of by R. B. Cumberland (1865)
"We accompanied them towards rhumba about three miles, to a small tank; there wo
stopped, and I remained in the road with the clothes of the party, ..."
4. Teaching The Best Practice Way: Methods That Matter, K-12 by Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar (2005)
"Well, Ms. Z hears about all this vocabulary and decides that she has to have them
write songs about their new discoveries, to a rhumba rhythm no less: We ..."
5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... Our New Music, 1941 Around ten o'clock the little five-piece band got tired
of messing around with a rhumba —Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder, ..."
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