cakewalk
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- noun
- /ˈkeɪkˌwɔk/
- Archaic
:
baile cakewalk
- During the event, the cakewalk provided a fun atmosphere filled with music and energetic strutting.
- the cakewalk dance
Examples
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The cakewalk is the originary moment where something new is produced by this American experiment, if you will.
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I led the cotillion in this dress a long time ago, and I won the cakewalk at Sunset Hill.
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The cakewalk is the foundation for all of Broadway dancing and thus, the foundation for jazz.
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I can do the cakewalk if Esther does it too.
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The cakewalk was a dance done on plantations where the Africans who were enslaved at the time would literally make fun of their masters.
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At the fair, everyone joined in to celebrate with a lively cakewalk that showcased traditional dance moves.
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The local festival featured a cakewalk where dancers competed for a lovely cake as a prize.
How Lively
- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cakewalk was a lively, strutting dance that started in the southern United States among Black dancers as a contest to 'win a cake', and it later became part of popular stage shows. This history explains why the dance is proud and showy.