ba·cha·ta (b ə-chä t ə)
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n.1. A style of bolero music originating in the Dominican Republic. 2. A Latin American dance for two people, performed to this music and involving a four-step pattern punctuated with a shake of the hips.
[American Spanish, boisterous merrymaking, bachata, shortening and alteration of cumbanchata, augmentative of cumbancha, boisterous merrymaking, from augmentative or deprecative form of cumbé, an Afro-Caribbean dance, perhaps from Kongo kúmba, to make noise.] |