flamenco

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

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flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

• flamenco guitar

• fandango

flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.
   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212:

     "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."

   • 2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:

     Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.

flamenco

1. neuter of flamencu

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋkːo/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋkːo̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋko/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋko̞]

flamenco

1. flamenco

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

• “flamenco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Spanish flamenco, from Dutch Vlaming.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmɛŋ.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋkɔ
• Syllabification: fla‧men‧co

flamenco n (indeclinable)

1. flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
2. flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)

• flamenco in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Spanish flamenco.

• Hyphenation: fla‧men‧co

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain)

From Spanish flamenco.

flamenco n (uncountable)

1. flamenco

From Dutch Vlaming.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmenko/ [flaˈmẽŋ.ko]
• Rhymes: -enko
• Syllabification: fla‧men‧co

flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (relational) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Fleming, a Flemish person

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish, the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium
2. Flemish, a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium

• bailaor, bailaora

• “flamenco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014