[sey-guh-deel-yuh, -dee-yuh, seg-uh-; Sp. se-gee-th
ee-lyah] 
[-deel-yuhz, -dee-yuhz; Sp. -thee-lyahs] . | 1. | Prosody. a stanza of four to seven lines with a distinctive rhythmic pattern. |
| 2. | a Spanish dance in triple meter for two persons. |
| 3. | the music for this dance. |
| se·gui·dil·la (sěg'ə-dē'yə, -dēl'yə, sā'gə-, sě'gē-thē'lyä) n.
[Spanish, diminutive of seguida, sequence, from feminine past participle of seguir, to follow, from Vulgar Latin *sequere, from Latin sequī; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
seguidilla
Spanish folk dance with many regional variants; also, a verse form widely used in Spanish folk song. The dance is a courtship dance of proud demeanour, with small springing steps, light foot stamps, and varied ground patterns. The song consists of coplas-improvised verses of love or satire-in quatrains with the syllabic pattern 7-5-7-5 and assonantal rhyme on the second and fourth lines. A copla is frequently followed by an estribillo, a tercet with the syllabic pattern 5-7-5, rhyming assonantally on the first and third lines
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