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seguidilla

[ sey-guh-deel-yuh, -dee-yuh, seg-uh-; Spanish se-gee-thee-lyah ]

noun

, plural se·gui·dil·las [sey-g, uh, -, deel, -y, uh, z, -, dee, -y, uh, z, se-gee-, 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.


seguidilla

/ ˌsɛɡɪˈdiːljə /

noun

  1. a Spanish dance in a fast triple rhythm
  2. a piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance
  3. prosody a stanzaic form consisting of four to seven lines and marked by a characteristic rhythm


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Word History and Origins

Origin of seguidilla1

1755–65; < Spanish, equivalent to seguid ( a ) sequence ( segui- (stem of seguir Latin sequī to follow) + -da < Latin -ta feminine past participle suffix) + -illa diminutive suffix

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Word History and Origins

Origin of seguidilla1

Spanish: a little dance, from seguida a dance, from seguir to follow, from Latin sequī

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Example Sentences

The Tigercat looked at his new ally with a stare of surprise, shrugged his shoulders, and whistled a Mexican seguidilla.

Whether the little seguidilla meant any thing in the lips of the songstress, I do not presume to say.

It is the seguidilla, with its gracious memories, which gives life to the Feria.

The minuet and the waltz were both in some degree derived from it, and it had much in common with the famous Seguidilla of Spain.

In the distance there was the sound of united frivolities, a band of twenty guitars thrumming a wilful seguidilla.

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