bolero

From Spanish bolero, from bola.

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bolero (plural boleros)

1. (dance) A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 335:

     Edward's attention was at first rivetted on two dancers engaged in their graceful national dance, the bolero. What a blessing to a people is a climate that encourages out-of-door amusement!

2. (fashion) A type of short, buttonless jacket or blouse, open or tied in front and ending at the diaphragm.
   • 2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 175:

     He took the bolero, which was made of soft angora, and rubbed it up and down his cheek.

bolero (third-person singular simple present boleros, present participle boleroing, simple past and past participle boleroed)

1. (intransitive) To dance the bolero.

• bolero on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• borole

Borrowed from Spanish bolero. The clothing senses may have been borrowed via French boléro.

• IPA^(key): /boːˈleː.roː/

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• Hyphenation: bo‧le‧ro
• Rhymes: -eːroː

bolero m (plural bolero's, diminutive bolerootje n)

1. bolero (dance)
2. music accompanying this dance
3. bolero (jacket)
4. a type of Spanish hat

• → Indonesian: bolero

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “bolero”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• Bolero (muziek) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl
• Bolero (kleding) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From Spanish bolero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbolero/, [ˈbo̞le̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -olero
• Syllabification^(key): bo‧le‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): bo‧le‧ro

bolero

1. bolero

• “bolero”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Spanish bolero.

• IPA^(key): [boˈlero]
• Hyphenation: bo‧lé‧ro
• Rhymes: -ro, -o

boléro (plural bolero-bolero)

1. bolero (all senses)

• “bolero” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French boléro or Spanish bolero.

bolero n (plural bolerouri)

1. bolero

From bola +‎ -ero.

• IPA^(key): /boˈleɾo/ [boˈle.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: bo‧le‧ro

bolero m (plural boleros)

1. bolero (music)
2. bolero (dance)
3. bolero (jacket)

• → Dutch: bolero
• → English: bolero
• → Finnish: bolero
• → French: boléro

bolero m (plural boleros, feminine bolera, feminine plural boleras)

1. bolero musician

• “bolero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /boˈleɾo/ [boˈlɛː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: bo‧le‧ro

From bola +‎ -ero.

bolero (feminine bolera, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜒᜇᜓ)

1. (colloquial) flatterer

   Synonym: mambobola

   • 1990, Maksim Gorky, Lusak:

     Isa kang magaling na bolero, Lolo. Ang ganda mong magsinungaling! Magandang pakinggan ang iyong mga pantasya. Sige, magsinungaling ka pa. Ayos din 'yon. Wala namang maraming magagandang bagay na mapapak- inggan sa ...

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   • 1988, Lualhati Bautista, Dekada '70: ang orihinal at kimpletong edisyon:

     "Dad, ang serious, isa ospital dinadala." Natawa 'ko. Napikon nang ... hindi ka naging presidente?" Gano'n liga si Jason: masayahin, bolero, mapanukso, pero kaibig-ibig na bata. Mahirap kang magalit sa kanya dahil mabilis siya sa yakap at  ...

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   • 2005, Galileo S. Zafra, Romulo P. Baquiran, Sawikaan 2004: mga salita ng taon, →ISBN:

     Kailangarg mag- update kayo ng nangyayari sa buhay ng isa't isa. ... Kapag mahilig kang makipagkuwentuhan, tsikador o tsikadora ang tawag sa iyo. Puwedeng ... Pinaa.Tsinika. Dito rin lilitaw ang kahulugan ng pagiging bolero ng isang ...

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   • 1989, National Mid-week:

     Nakapaloob sa baranggay ang isa pang malaking istasyon ng radyo at telebisyon, mga talyer, mga imprenta, otel, motel, laboratoryo ng pelikula, pakulutan, ... Puwes, pinangakuan sila ng mga bolero ng lupa. ... Kung kandidato kang taga-iskuwater, huwag kang aastang pulubi; umasta kang siga at may pinag-aralan.

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Borrowed from Spanish bolero.

bolero (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜎᜒᜇᜓ)

1. bolero (dance)
2. bolero (music)
3. bolero (jacket)

• “bolero”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018