mazurka
- noun
- /məˈzɜr.kə/
- During the festival, the musicians played a beautiful mazurka, inspiring everyone to take to the dance floor.
Examples
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The spirit of the mazurka is very hard to capture, and Rosina spent many hours with me trying to transmit its characteristics.
Academic text (1996) -
If you won't promise to marry me, will you dance the mazurka with me?
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Is your card free for the mazurka?
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He'll dance the mazurka with Kitty.
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Kitty, will you dance the mazurka with me?
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Won't you dance the mazurka with me?
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Other musical selections, such as the redowa, shotis, and mazurka, continued to be played, but less frequently.
Academic text (1999) -
She showed her old photos and played Chopin mazurkas for her.
Fiction book (2000) -
The tango did not exist yet, and the wealthy still danced rigadoons, mazurkas, lancers, and minuets.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the wedding, everyone joined together to celebrate by dancing the mazurka in a lively circle.
How Lively
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mazurka comes from Poland and is named after the region Mazovia, from the Polish word mazur meaning 'a person from Mazovia'. So a mazurka is literally the 'Mazovian' dance, which is why the word means a lively Polish dance and the music for it.