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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



... difficult person to entertain!" he accused softly. "Here Hunch has strained a sinuous spine performing our beautiful native dances, the tango and the hesitation, and I've fluted up all the wind in the room and still ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... pick from the best of the throng In the ballroom of Life and go lilting along; We follow our fancy, and choose as we will, For waltz or for tango or merry quadrille; But ever one partner is waiting us all At the end of the ...
— Poems of Optimism • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... danced the tango and the trot In days of old, there is no doubt we'd find The poet would have written—would he not?— "On with the dance, let ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers


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


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