Definitions
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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
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Segments of their routines feature a "rhumba", a drummer's duel, drumstick juggling, exploding flagpoles, and other humorous details.
TheZoo 2009
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Segments of their routines feature a "rhumba", a drummer's duel, drumstick juggling, exploding flagpoles, and other humorous details.
TheZoo 2009
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My wife left me alone and went off to rhumba with another man.
Who Made Men Dance Susan Tepper 2011
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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
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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
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I try doing the fox trot and the waltz and the rhumba and the cha-cha.
Who Made Men Dance Susan Tepper 2011
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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.
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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
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The workouts here each feature one Latin dance style -- cha-cha, salsa, merengue, samba or rhumba.
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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".
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