Dictionary entry

Tangoing

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Definition

tango /'tæŋgǝƱ/ n ( pl -os /-gǝƱz/) ႏွစ္ေယာက္တြဲကရန္ စည္းခ်က္ ျပင္းေသာ ေတာင္အေမရိကတိုက္ အကတစ္မ်ဳိး။ ထိုတီးလံုး။ တန္ဂို။ dance/do the tango. v ( pt, pp -goed ; pres p -going ) တန္ဂိုကသည္။

Examples

  1. ‘The influences that gave rise to the tango in the streets of Buenos Aires range from the Cuban habanera to Sicilian folk song and dance.’
  2. ‘The waltz
  3. foxtrot
  4. tango and quickstep are danced in rapid-fire succession in each ballroom round while salsa steps up the beat to let Latin competitors loosen up a little and go through the paces of the rhumba
  5. samba and cha cha.’
  6. ‘In the shack
  7. they danced the tango
  8. the polka and the swing.’
  9. ‘Women dance flamenco and tango and belly dancing.’
  10. ‘As in Argentina
  11. the tango is a popular dance form.’
  12. ‘Argentine tango is a dance of the night - and passions that breed in the dark.’
  13. ‘He maintains that it takes at least ten years to learn how to dance a tango.’
  14. ‘It was also here that the music and dance of the tango
  15. once described as vertical flirting
  16. was born among the brothels and bordellos of Necochea
  17. a street that today is lined with pizzerias
  18. cantinas and gift shops.’
  19. ‘The next hour is spent dancing the tango
  20. the waltz the rumba
  21. the cha-cha and jive.’
  22. ‘Adults and children are well catered for in Saturday's packed workshop programme including samba drumming
  23. bodhrán
  24. African drumming
  25. belly dancing
  26. tango and salsa dancing.’
  27. ‘They've been tap dancing
  28. doing the tango
  29. body-popping
  30. dancing the salsa - you name it
  31. he's seen it.’
  32. ‘‘We had less experience at the beginning
  33. so I choreographed rumbas
  34. tangos
  35. and bulerias because they were familiar
  36. ’ he said.’
  37. ‘The polka and waltz are very popular
  38. but Slovenes dance all major dances from the tango to the macarena.’
  39. ‘The Argentine tango originated in Buenos Aires at the turn of the last century.’
  40. ‘The bottle has quite a fancy label of a couple dancing the tango
  41. which appears to move when you look at it from a different direction
  42. which would suggest to me that this winemaker is very keen on the idea of exports.’
  43. ‘Silently
  44. he stops and gazes at a painting of a man and woman dancing the tango underneath the umbrellas of their servants; the shopkeeper sees him
  45. and she goes outside to talk with him.’
  46. ‘Young and old
  47. they were dancing the tango together and singing their hearts out.’
  48. ‘His main recreation remains ballroom dancing - tango
  49. cha cha and waltz being his specialities.’
  50. ‘Aside from a few moments of group dancing
  51. the evening comprises tangos of varying temperaments
  52. performed by one couple after another (seven in all) and individually choreographed by the performers.’
  53. ‘And while their environment may look European their spirit is Latin: people giggle in parks
  54. dine out on great shanks of beef
  55. dance the tango far into the night
  56. and follow the passions of soccer.’