mambo

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A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)

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A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.
The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.
In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.
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A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.

Etimología

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

verbo

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To perform this dance.

Formas

plural: mambos, mamboes
pasado: mamboed
participio: mamboed
gerundio: mamboing
3.ª persona del singular: mambos

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