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- noun Plural form of
tarantella .
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Examples
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Most important, do not ask me, please, to make a judgement on the guitar-players and on the tarantellas which are sung during the Offertory.
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Most important, do not ask me, please, to make a judgement on the guitar-players and on the tarantellas which are sung during the Offertory.
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Most important, do not ask me, please, to make a judgement on the guitar-players and on the tarantellas which are sung during the Offertory.
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The Captured were not going to jump up and dance tarantellas when they were liberated.
Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999
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Among her productions, which have been often performed, are tarantellas, a sonata, and other piano pieces, a 'cello sonata, a piano quartette and trio, and a piano concerto.
Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson
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But Billy could not, of course, play tarantellas all day; and even while she did play them she could not forget that waste-basket up-stairs, and the horror it contained.
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Slow minuets or lively tarantellas were danced, according to the fashion of the moment, and had the virtue of teaching stately dignity as well as poetry of motion.
For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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He had given the book his every emotion, and discovered it gave nothing back; but had shaken, terrified, played furious _tarantellas_ upon his feelings -- and replenished naught.
Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905
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But Billy could not, of course, play tarantellas all day; and even while she did play them she could not forget that waste-basket up-stairs, and the horror it contained.
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Germany, many of the folk-songs are waltzes; in Spain, seguidillas; and in Italy, tarantellas.
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