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calypsos
Variant of calypso
adjective
designating or of songs improvised and sung as originally by the native people of Trinidad: they are satirical ballads, usually topical, characterized by wrenched syllabic stress and syncopated rhythms
noun pl. calypsos
a calypso song or calypso music
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