salsa
Use Salsa in a sentence
sə; noun
1.
a lively, vigorous type of contemporary Latin American popular music, blending predominantly Cuban rhythms with elements of jazz, rock, and soul music.
2.
a ballroom dance of Puerto Rican origin, performed to this music, similar to the mambo, but faster with the accent on the first beat instead of the second beat of each measure.
3.
Mexican Cookery. a sauce, especially a hot sauce containing chilies.
verb (used without object)
4.
to dance the salsa.
Origin:
1970–75; < American Spanish, Spanish: literally, sauce; probably so called orig. because of its mixture of styles
1970–75; < American Spanish, Spanish: literally, sauce; probably so called orig. because of its mixture of styles
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| —n | |
| 1. | a type of Latin American big-band dance music |
| 2. | a dance performed to this kind of music |
| 3. | Mexican cookery a spicy tomato-based sauce |
| [C20: from Spanish: sauce] | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
salsa
kind of sauce, 1846; kind of dance, 1975, from Sp., lit. "sauce," from V.L. *salsa "condiment" (see sauce). In Amer.Sp. esp. used of a kind of relish with chopped-up ingredients; the music so called from its blend of Latin jazz and rock styles.
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Example sentences
Refrigerate homemade salsa in pasta sauce jars instead of buying commercially prepared salsa.
For toppings try diced avocado, sour cream, fresh salsa or chopped fresh cilantro.
Salsa and taco seasonings make this chicken soup a little different than your traditional chicken noodle.
If you'd gotten up to refill the salsa, you missed it.
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