flamenco

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Vlaming).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 5 Feb 2010:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!

• flamenco guitar

• fandango

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋkːo/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋkːo̞], IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋko/, [ˈflɑme̞ŋko̞]
• Hyphenation: fla‧men‧co

flamenco

1. flamenco

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

From Dutch flaming.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmenko/

flamenco (feminine singular flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (attributive) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)
4. A Flemish person

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish, the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium.
2. Flemish, a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium.

• Flandes

• bailaor, bailaora

• “flamenco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.