POLKAS Antonyms

• music composed for dancing the mazurka

• a Polish national dance in triple time

• a stately court dance in the 17th century

• a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite

• syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba

• a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement

• a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance

• dance the rhumba

• large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood

• music composed for dancing the samba

• a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa

• a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers

• dance the samba

• a ballroom dance of Latin-American origin

• music written in duple time for dancing the tango

• dance a tango

• an assured victory (especially in an election)

• music composed in triple time for waltzing

• a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat

• dance a waltz