fandango
IPA: fændˈæŋgoʊ
noun
- (music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).
- A gathering for dancing; a ball.
- (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption.
- A confusion; a chaotic collection.
- An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior.
- (color) A shade of red-violet.
- (euphemistic) Vagina.
verb
- (dance) To dance the fandango.
- (figuratively) To dance, particularly with a lot of energy.
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Examples of "fandango" in Sentences
- Early next morning, I left them playing their "fandango" play.
- The Rolling Stones whose lyrics feature the word fandango Photo: AP
- This kist makes me crazy especially since fandango has it advertised that they are selling the tickets.
- They have also two favourite dances, called a fandango, and a bolero, both extremely lively and graceful.
- Telegraph readers have been inundating the Letters page with examples of the curious fortunes of the word fandango in popular song.
- The term fandango, though originally signifying a peculiar kind of dance, seems to be used here for an evening's dancing entertainment, in which many different _pas_ are introduced.
- There is one thing that I think I shall regret leaving myself, and that is, the fandango and the two or three pretty senoritas one has been in the habit of meeting at it almost every night.
- He might indeed go to their wretched "fandango" in the end -- they had all been urging him, Stephen, Medora, everybody -- but never as a cheap imitation of a swell so long as his own good, neat, well-made, every-day wardrobe existed as it was.
- The New Mexicans, both men and women, had a great fondness for jewelry, dress, and amusements; of the latter, the fandango was the principal, which was held in the most fashionable place of resort, where every belle and beauty in the town presented herself, attired in the most costly manner, and displaying her jewelled ornaments to the best advantage.
- He's the kind of a guy who would put a lampshade on his head and dance the fandango if he thought it would make one person smile, and it takes a similar kind of Texas chutzpah to get up on the stage at the Carlyle, in front of debutantes and dowagers sporting enough jewelry to exceed the gross national product of Madagascar, and sing "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
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