tarantella
1 synonym for tarantella, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A fast Italian dance with a swinging six-beat rhythm, or music written for it.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
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tarantelle
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”), on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).
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