Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ability to attract others through personal magnetism and charm.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[76] While the term duende is Spanish, the other three spirits mentioned -- tigbalang, iki, mananangal -- are good old native demons.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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Their website talks about the Spanish word "duende" -- which literally means something like
Gearwire - 2008
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The duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought.
Hadani Ditmars: Duende Comes to Vancouver Hadani Ditmars 2011
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The duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought.
Hadani Ditmars: Duende Comes to Vancouver Hadani Ditmars 2011
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In fiction, I want a powerful narrative voice that soars off the lyric register with wrenching regrets, achieving what Lorca described as duende, or deep song.
Living With Music: Dean Bakopoulos - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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In fiction, I want a powerful narrative voice that soars off the lyric register with wrenching regrets, achieving what Lorca described as duende, or deep song.
Living With Music: Dean Bakopoulos - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The duende is a power, not a work; it is a struggle, not a thought ....
theatre notes 2008
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The duende is a power, not a work; it is a struggle, not a thought ....
theatre notes 2008
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A duende is the ghost of a child who has died before it can be baptized: and there are many such children in Pavo, because Father Ignacius is such a wicked priest.
DC's 2008
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He says, George Frazier, the writer who really popularized the term 'duende' [extraordinary sense of style], never wore a bow tie.
Bow Ties 1995
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I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’
Lorca, Garcia (1898–1936) - Theory and Play of the Duende 2023
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‘Dark sounds’ said the man of the Spanish people, agreeing with Goethe, who in speaking of Paganini hit on a definition of the duende: ‘A mysterious force that everyone feels and no philosopher has explained.’
Lorca, Garcia (1898–1936) - Theory and Play of the Duende 2023
pedalinfaith commented on the word duende
A foot stomps.
A head turns.
The house crumbles.
December 9, 2006
moneypenny commented on the word duende
Chamorro people believe in tales of taotaomonas, duendes and other spirits. Duende, according to the Chamorro-English Dictionary by Donald Topping, Pedro Ogo and Bernadita Dungca, is a goblin, elf, ghost or spook in the form of a dwarf, a mischievous spirit which hides or takes small children. 3
I copied this from wikipedia so I don't know if you can use this info verbatim.
September 11, 2009