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Mazourkas

[muh-zur-kuh, -zoor-]

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noun

a lively Polish dance in moderately quick triple meter.

music for, or in the rhythm of, this dance.

Also, ma·zour·ka.

Origin:
1810–20; < Polish, equivalent to Mazur Mazovia (district in northern Poland) + -ka noun suffix

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mazurka

1818, from Rus. mazurka, from Pol. mazurek "dance of the Mazur," a ref. to inhabitants of Mazowsze (M.L. Mazovia), ancient region in central Poland. The Polish accusative in tanczyc mazurka "to dance the mazurek" was interpreted in Russian as a feminine affix, hence the -ka ending.

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Mazourkas

ma·zur·ka