calinda

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calinda (uncountable)

  1. An African-American style of dance (or its associated music) in the southern US and parts of Latin America.
    • 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 74:
      The British colonies did not permit these dances, so the calinda and the bamboula did not flourish in the plantation societies of Virginia and Carolina.
  2. A Caribbean martial art involving stickfighting.

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