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      tarantella
      noun
      a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
      music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella
      Roots
      tarantotarant- · Italian · the town of Taranto, whose spider bite the dance supposedly curedella-ella · Italian · diminutive suffix
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