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pizzica

pizzica noun: a popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula.

Noun

pizzica (countable and uncountable, plural pizzicas)

  1. A popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula.
    • With strings, accordion, flute and lots of tambourine, it pays particular attention to the pizzica, a galloping six-beat dance related to the tarantella and long used as a faith-healing cure for spider bites.2007 January 19, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times

Forms of pizzica

pluralpizzicas

Origin of pizzica

Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizzica, from the verb pizzicare (“to pinch”). Compare pizzicato.

Questions about pizzica

What does pizzica mean?
Pizzica means a popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula.
What part of speech is pizzica?
Pizzica is a noun.
What is the plural of pizzica?
The plural of pizzica is pizzicas.

Words near pizzica in the dictionary

  1. pizzetta
  2. pizzettas
  3. pizzette
  4. pizzettes
  5. Pizzi
  6. pizzica
  7. pizzicati
  8. pizzicato
  9. pizzicatos
  10. Pizzis
  11. pizzle

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