maxixe

In the Bahia region of Brazil, where Afro-Brazilian culture is the strongest, burr gherkins are called maxixe (mah-SHEE-shay) and they form the most important ingredient in a traditional dish called and Your Budget

Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles 2008

The accomplished musicians bring a rich repertoire of Bellinati's original compositions and arrangements written over Brazilian styles such as maxixe, seresta and Brazilian waltz.

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With maxixe (pronounced mah-SHEESH '), Mangan and others at UMass grow chipilin (cheep-LEEN'), a legume from Mexico and Central America; jilo (hee-LOH '), an eggplant-like crop grown in Brazil and West Africa; and hierba mora (eer-BAH' MOR-rah), a member of the tomato family.

Ethnic Food: Farmers Find A Future In Immigrant Vegetables 2010

As they entered, the orchestra were sounding the preliminary whimpers to a maxixe, a tune full of castanets and facile faintly languorous violin harmonies, appropriate to the crowded winter grill teeming with an excited college crowd, high-spirited at the approach of the holidays.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Suddenly, with banging tampani and the crash of cymbals, rattle of tambourines and beating of tomtoms, the barbaric Ethiopians of the dancing orchestra began their syncopated outrages against every known law of harmony -- swinging weirdly into the bewitching, tickling, tingling rhythm of a maxixe.

The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

The chorus men have invaded society with their fox-trots and maxixe steps.

The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

All the girls in the "dancings" and sportsmen at the bar who like a fox-trot or a maxixe have been given to believe, by people who ought to know better, that they are more sensitive to music than those who prefer Beethoven.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

They were just starting to do the -- maxixe, wasn't it,

Flappers and Philosophers 1918

The Englishman can no more be trifling and light-hearted in the Gallic manner than a Polar bear can dance the _maxixe brésilienne_ in the jungle.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

To my eye there is nothing more charming than a well-danced maxixe.

We Three Gouverneur Morris 1914