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flamencos

flamencos is the plural of flamenco.

Meaning of flamenco

Noun

flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

  1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
    • 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.2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian
  2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
    • 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!1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3

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Questions about flamencos

What is flamencos the plural of?
Flamencos is the plural of flamenco.

Words near flamencos in the dictionary

  1. flamencolike
  2. flamencological
  3. flamencologist
  4. flamencologists
  5. flamencology
  6. flamencos
  7. flamens
  8. flamenship
  9. flamenships
  10. flameout
  11. flameouts

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