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Tango   /tˈæŋgoʊ/   Listen
Tango

noun
(pl. tangos)
1.
A ballroom dance of Latin-American origin.
2.
Music written in duple time for dancing the tango.





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"Tango" Quotes from Famous Books



... But don't let that worry you. Dr. Max Wilson is going to operate on me. I'll be doing the tango yet." ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... After those cranky dances, it'll do both of us good to step out in some other way than that silly tango, and monkey climb. Have you thought up any scheme yet for learning the truth ...
— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson
... brilliantly and cruelly sunny, and on the way out of the city the eyes rest on a young woman dressed in the fashions of 1917, but with burst boots and darned "tango" stockings, and rent, shabby dress. The strong light betrays the disguises of a long-lived hat and shines garishly on the powder and paint of a young-old face. So ...
— Europe—Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham
... Enjoy my million! Don't make too big a fool of yourself, nor marry your tango teacher, but spend my million, Drusilla, spend it—and ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
... gigantic cumulation of capital, with its widespread new wealth, with its new ideas of social liberty, with its fading religion, with its technical wonders of luxury and comfort. This new age, which takes its orders from Broadway with its cabarets and tango dances, must ridicule the silence of our fathers and denounce it as a conspiracy. It needs the sexual discussions, as it craves the lurid music and the sensual dances, until finally even the most earnest energies, those of social ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg
... face bubbled with mirth at his story of the improvised tango that had wrecked the Sea Siren, the quick young eyes of the girl were taking in the compelling devil-may-care charm of Lindsay. Battered though he was, the splendid vigor of the man still showed in a certain tigerish ...
— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine


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


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