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fandango

An 18th-century Spanish dance in moderate to fast triple time (3/8 or 3/4), danced by a couple with the accompaniment of a guitar and castanets. Fandangos are found in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro/The Marriage of Figaro (1786), Gluck's Don Juan (1761), and Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol/Spanish Capriccio (1887).



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But what mainly occasioned a righteous indignation was, that the scoundrelly popinjay, while he cut a fandango here, and a whirligig there, did not seem to have the remotest idea in the world of such a thing as keeping time in his steps.
The Devil in the Belfry by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
I'd just got a letter from her, begging as usual for me to come home and hinting as usual about the dangers of an unmarried man like me running around loose in a country full of senoritas and fandangos.
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