rumba
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- noun
- /ˈrʌmbə/
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música de rumba
- The street takes the look of a Busby Berkeley musical as the cops high step in time to the infectious rumba beat.
- rumba beat
- rumba music
Examples
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Indeed, the soundtrack accompanying the film is an eclectic, sometimes jarring mix of cultural styles, including foreign rock-and-roll, disco, jazz, rumba, samba, and other types of Brazilian popular music.
Academic text (1993) -
My husband and I like to dance, and I'd like to be able to have a station that plays only, say, music for rumba.
Blog text (26) -
Faint rumba music wafts on the air.
Fiction book (1996) -
All these names, all these names I've been called ever since I was eight years old and dancing around to my mother's rumba records.
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The song was revived by Peret and adopted by all Catalan rumba.
Blog text (2) -
Pedestrians with radios and ghetto blasters look down in shock as a rumba begins playing from every speaker in town.
Fiction book (1994) -
On Sunday afternoons at the plaza, the lively sound of rumba music fills the air, inviting everyone to dance.
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The local dance studio offers classes to learn rumba, known for its captivating rhythm and smooth moves.
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As the night progressed, the band switched to rumba, creating an electrifying atmosphere that got everyone on the dance floor.
Synonyms
Music with a lively two-beat rhythm for dancing
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Rumba comes from Spanish rumba, meaning 'party', and it named the lively music played at those Cuban gatherings. So rumba music is the beat people play and dance to at a Cuban party.