flamenco

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

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flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

• fandango

flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.
   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212:

     "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."

   • 2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:

     Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.

flamenco

1. neuter of flamencu

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋkːo/, [ˈflɑ̝me̞ŋkːo̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋko/, [ˈflɑ̝me̞ŋko̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑmeŋkːo

flamenco

1. flamenco

• “flamenco”, 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

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

• “flamenco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish flamenco. Doublet of Flamand.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmɛŋ.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋkɔ
• Syllabification: fla‧men‧co

flamenco n (indeclinable)

1. flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
2. flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)

• flamenco in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Spanish flamenco.

• Hyphenation: fla‧men‧co

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain)

Borrowed from Spanish flamenco.

flamenco n (uncountable)

1. flamenco

Borrowed from Dutch Vlaming.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmenko/ [flaˈmẽŋ.ko]
• Rhymes: -enko
• Syllabification: fla‧men‧co

flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (relational) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Fleming, a Flemish person

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)

• → English: flamenco
• → French: flamenco
• → German: Flamenco
• → Italian: flamenco
• → Russian: фламе́нко (flaménko)

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish (the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium)
2. Flemish (a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium)

• bailaor, bailaora

• “flamenco”, 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

Borrowed from Spanish flamenco.

flamenco c

1. (music, dance) flamenco

• flamenco in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• flamenco in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)