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cariso

cariso noun: a genre of folk music from Trinidad and Tobago, an ancestor to modern calypso, performed by mainly female singers called chantwells.

Noun

cariso (uncountable)

  1. (Trinidad-and-Tobago) A genre of folk music from Trinidad and Tobago, an ancestor to modern calypso, performed by mainly female singers called chantwells.

Questions about cariso

What does cariso mean?
Cariso means a genre of folk music from Trinidad and Tobago, an ancestor to modern calypso, performed by mainly female singers called chantwells.
What part of speech is cariso?
Cariso is a noun.

Words near cariso in the dictionary

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