Definition of "flamenco"

flamenco

/fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural flamencos
1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
  Quotations
  It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
  2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian
2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
  Quotations
  La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!
  1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3
verb
third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed
1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.
  Quotations
  "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."
  2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212
  Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.
  2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, page 129