beguine

noun

a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies

music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance

(Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries)

Roots

beghardbeguine- · French · member of a lay religious sisterhood; whence the dance

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