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coladeira

coladeira noun: a dance and associated musical genre of Cape Verde.

Noun

coladeira (plural coladeiras)

  1. A dance and associated musical genre of Cape Verde.
    • She alternated slow mornas with slightly faster songs that touched on other Cape Verdean rhythms like funaná and coladeira.2007 June 28, Jon Pareles, “A Calm, Serene Presence From Islands of Nostalgia”, in New York Times

Forms of coladeira

pluralcoladeiras

Origin of coladeira

From Portuguese coladeira.

Questions about coladeira

What does coladeira mean?
Coladeira means a dance and associated musical genre of Cape Verde.
What part of speech is coladeira?
Coladeira is a noun.
What is the plural of coladeira?
The plural of coladeira is coladeiras.

Words near coladeira in the dictionary

  1. Colace
  2. colachon
  3. colachons
  4. colada
  5. coladas
  6. coladeira
  7. coladeiras
  8. colaholic
  9. colaholics
  10. colalgia
  11. Colalo

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