beguine

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1. beguine

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1. beguine

beguine englanniksi

1. Beguine

1. A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.

2. {{quote-text|en|year=1935|author=Cole Porter|title=Begin the Beguine

3. 1956, Hughes|Langston Hughes, ''I Wonder as I Wander'', 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), ''The Collected Works of Langston Hughes'', Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69,

It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:

4. {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Brent Hayes Edwards|title=The Practice of Diaspora|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tLRYCS9uFUYC&pg=PA174&dq=%22beguine%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LnwlU566B4G2kgWN2YGwBQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22beguine%22&f=false|page=174

5. beguine (gloss)