Tarantella Definition

tărən-tĕlə
noun
A fast, whirling S Italian dance for couples, in 6/8 time.
Webster's New World
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Synonyms:
  • tarantelle

Other Word Forms of Tarantella

Noun

Singular:
tarantella
Plural:
tarantellas

Origin of Tarantella

  • 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).

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian after Taranto

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tarantella Sentence Examples

  • In the town of Taranto victims of the tarantula danced a frenzied tarantella to prevent death from tarantism.

  • The wild dance, called tarantella, was supposed, by causing perspiration, to drive out the poison of the bite.

  • The name tarantella, in use at the present time, applies both to a dance still in vogue in Southern Italy and also to musical pieces resembling in their stimulating measures those that were necessary to rouse to activity the sufferer from tarantism in the middle ages.

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