Flamenco is a Spanish art of song, guitar and stamping dance. Dance flamenco, flamenco guitar, a flamenco night.
The singing came first and is the heart of it; the dance and the guitar grew around the voice. It belongs to Andalusia and to the Roma communities there, and the rhythms are counted in cycles of twelve that fall in unfamiliar places.
1nounflamencoA Spanish dance of stamping feet and clapping hands.
“In Seville we watched a flamenco dancer in a red dress, with a guitarist playing beside her.”
flamenco is an art form.
Spanish flamenco once meant Flemish, and how the name came to the art is disputed.
Middle Dutch
vlaminc — Fleming
Spanish
flamenco
English, today
flamenco
Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA