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
- ‘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.’
- ‘The waltz
- foxtrot
- 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
- samba and cha cha.’
- ‘In the shack
- they danced the tango
- the polka and the swing.’
- ‘Women dance flamenco and tango and belly dancing.’
- ‘As in Argentina
- the tango is a popular dance form.’
- ‘Argentine tango is a dance of the night - and passions that breed in the dark.’
- ‘He maintains that it takes at least ten years to learn how to dance a tango.’
- ‘It was also here that the music and dance of the tango
- once described as vertical flirting
- was born among the brothels and bordellos of Necochea
- a street that today is lined with pizzerias
- cantinas and gift shops.’
- ‘The next hour is spent dancing the tango
- the waltz the rumba
- the cha-cha and jive.’
- ‘Adults and children are well catered for in Saturday's packed workshop programme including samba drumming
- bodhrán
- African drumming
- belly dancing
- tango and salsa dancing.’
- ‘They've been tap dancing
- doing the tango
- body-popping
- dancing the salsa - you name it
- he's seen it.’
- ‘‘We had less experience at the beginning
- so I choreographed rumbas
- tangos
- and bulerias because they were familiar
- ’ he said.’
- ‘The polka and waltz are very popular
- but Slovenes dance all major dances from the tango to the macarena.’
- ‘The Argentine tango originated in Buenos Aires at the turn of the last century.’
- ‘The bottle has quite a fancy label of a couple dancing the tango
- which appears to move when you look at it from a different direction
- which would suggest to me that this winemaker is very keen on the idea of exports.’
- ‘Silently
- 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
- and she goes outside to talk with him.’
- ‘Young and old
- they were dancing the tango together and singing their hearts out.’
- ‘His main recreation remains ballroom dancing - tango
- cha cha and waltz being his specialities.’
- ‘Aside from a few moments of group dancing
- the evening comprises tangos of varying temperaments
- performed by one couple after another (seven in all) and individually choreographed by the performers.’
- ‘And while their environment may look European their spirit is Latin: people giggle in parks
- dine out on great shanks of beef
- dance the tango far into the night
- and follow the passions of soccer.’