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Tango   Listen
noun
Tango  n.  (pl. tangos)  
1.
A difficult dance in two-four time characterized by graceful posturing, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango.
2.
Any of various popular forms derived from this.
3.
A musical tune appropriate for this dance.





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"Tango" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The old ones were no good. Have a cigarette? These are Armenian, or would you prefer a Honolulan or a Nigerian? Now," he resumed, when we had lighted our cigarettes, "what would you like to do first? Dance the tango? Hear some Hawaiian music, ...
— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock
... the first thing that struck me. There were other things of course, such as the fact he didn't have any arms or legs. He didn't have any head either, in case he had eyes in the first place. He was a black swirling bioplastic mass of something or other and he was doing a graceful tango directly in front of the TV screen, thereby blocking off from view the stout woman who ...
— The Very Black • Dean Evans
... annoyed Henry more than usual, for he knew that very soon the daffodils were due on the stage to clinch the verisimilitude of the scene by dancing the tango with the rabbits. He endeavoured to make the most of the ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... vomiting-point by its odour, but after a few mouthfuls declares it to be the very apple of Paradise, and marvels how he could have survived so long in the benighted lands where such ambrosial fare is not; even as the true connaisseur who, beholding some rare scarlet idol from the Tingo-Tango forests, at first casts it aside and then, light dawning as he ponders over those monstrous complexities, begins to realize that they, and they alone, contain the quintessential formulae of all the fervent dreamings of Scopas and Michelangelo; even ...
— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas
... makes you sick, I know what it is. It's dodging me to fly around all hours of the night with May Scully, the girl who put the tang in tango. It's eating around in swell sixty-cent restaurants ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various
... venerable spinster of twenty-one. "I've been, to dances with a female chaperon where there was no smoking on the stairs, and some people danced a thing they called a 'tango.'" ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919 • Various
... she was, the unhappy girl rode astride my legs, thrust her hard fingers through my hair, rumpling it, and sang a tango in horrible fashion, in her ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... the province of Tango there lived on the shore of Japan in the little fishing village of Mizu-no-ye a young fisherman named Urashima Taro. His father had been a fisherman before him, and his skill had more than doubly ...
— Japanese Fairy Tales • Yei Theodora Ozaki


Words linked to "Tango" :   trip the light fantastic, dance, trip the light fantastic toe


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