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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of rumba.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance
  • noun syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba
  • noun a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
  • verb dance the rhumba

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Examples

  • Segments of their routines feature a "rhumba", a drummer's duel, drumstick juggling, exploding flagpoles, and other humorous details.

    TheZoo 2009

  • Segments of their routines feature a "rhumba", a drummer's duel, drumstick juggling, exploding flagpoles, and other humorous details.

    TheZoo 2009

  • My wife left me alone and went off to rhumba with another man.

    Who Made Men Dance Susan Tepper 2011

  • The trip includes private access to Finca Vigia, Ernest Hemingway's waterfront home in Cojimar; a cigar-rolling workshop; a visit to the Matannzas, the birthplace of rhumba; and a stay in the five-star Iberostar Grand Hotel Trinidad.

    Sites and Sightings: New on the Travel Scene Sara Clemence 2011

  • She wades to the tiny grass island where brown men are dancing—a rhumba of rattlesnakes.

    The Shoes, the Girl and The Waves that Washed Them Away Christopher Allen 2011

  • I try doing the fox trot and the waltz and the rhumba and the cha-cha.

    Who Made Men Dance Susan Tepper 2011

  • Its style is high in Latin verve: the language of ballet infused with rhumba, tango and salsa, as well as the athleticism of the Brazilian martial art form capoeira.

    This week's new theatre and dance 2011

  • In a short 1954 Washington Post feature story on Ms. Veihmeyer, she was described as "an enthusiastic dancer [who] won a cup in Jamaica for doing the best rhumba."

    Anne Veihmeyer, executive assistant Post 2010

  • The workouts here each feature one Latin dance style -- cha-cha, salsa, merengue, samba or rhumba.

    Do a little dance: Exercise DVDs make their moves 2010

  • With French maracas playing in the background (those cicadas do give off such a rhumba-shaking sound), I sit at my desk beside an open window and study "The Perfume of Broom".

    Lettres de ma Terrasse 2009

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