flamenco

Etymology

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).

noun

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism. 5 Feb 2010, Mike Marqusee, The Guardian
2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball! 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3

verb

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.
   "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough." 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212
   Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with. 2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, page 129