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Synonyms for tango
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : tang-goh |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæŋ goʊ |
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Définition of tango
Origin :- syncopated ballroom dance, 1913, from Argentine Spanish tango, originally the name of an African-American drum dance, probably from a Niger-Congo language (cf. Ibibio tamgu "to dance"). Phrase it takes two to tango was a song title from 1952.
- As in dance : noun moving feet and body to music
- It isn't a Bunny Hug or Tango, or anything distracting for lookers-on.
- Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
- The following Sunday three of the Carthage preachers attacked the tango.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- The tango was upon the world like a Mississippi at flood-time.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- I was saying that Prue is too fine a girl to be allowed to mingle with that tango set.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- In the towns smaller than Carthage the anxiety for the tango fermented.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- Mary took a course of tango lessons, and urged her mother to do the same.
- Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber
- Then why does his correspondent address him as a Tango Teacher?
- Extract from : « You Should Worry Says John Henry » by George V. Hobart
- I'm afraid if you wait as long as that before you master the tango it will be out.
- Extract from : « Once a Week » by Alan Alexander Milne
- She was the first person who had not begun by asking me if I danced the tango!
- Extract from : « Once a Week » by Alan Alexander Milne
- He dances the tango so beautifully; I think it all came through that.
- Extract from : « Bird of Paradise » by Ada Leverson
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