flamenco

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/

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flamenco (countable and uncountable, plural flamencos)

1. (uncountable) A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
   • 2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 November 2020:

     Among the dancers, who joined in periodically, the outlier wasn’t the Spanish flamenco dancer, Jesús Carmona (in town for the Flamenco Festival at City Center), so much as the New York salsero, Eddie Torres Jr.

2. (countable) A song or dance performed in such a style.
   • 1977, Tennessee Williams, Vieux Carré, I.3:

     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!

• fandango

flamenco (third-person singular simple present flamencos, present participle flamencoing, simple past and past participle flamencoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance flamenco.
   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 212:

     "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."

   • 2011, Yvonne Harris, A River to Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 129:

     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.

flamenco

1. neuter of flamencu

From Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋkːo/, [ˈflɑ̝me̞ŋkːo̞]
• IPA^(key): /ˈflɑmeŋko/, [ˈflɑ̝me̞ŋko̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑmeŋkːo

flamenco

1. flamenco

• “flamenco”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (music, dance)

• “flamenco”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish flamenco. Doublet of Flamand.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmɛŋ.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛŋkɔ
• Syllabification: fla‧men‧co

flamenco n (indeclinable)

1. flamenco (genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, Spain)
2. flamenco (song or a dance in such a style)

• flamenco in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flamenco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Spanish flamenco.

• Hyphenation: fla‧men‧co

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamenco (a genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain)

• “flamenco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “flamenco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Spanish flamenco.

flamenco n (uncountable)

1. flamenco

Borrowed from Dutch Vlaming.

• IPA^(key): /flaˈmenko/ [flaˈmẽŋ.ko]
• Rhymes: -enko
• Syllabification: fla‧men‧co

flamenco (feminine flamenca, masculine plural flamencos, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Flemish
2. (relational) flamenco
3. (colloquial) insolent, cheeky

flamenco m (plural flamencos, feminine flamenca, feminine plural flamencas)

1. Fleming, a Flemish person

flamenco m (plural flamencos)

1. flamingo (bird)
2. flamenco (music)
3. flamenco (dance)

• → English: flamenco
• → French: flamenco
• → German: Flamenco
• → Italian: flamenco
• → Russian: фламе́нко (flaménko)

flamenco m (uncountable)

1. Flemish (the standard variety of Dutch used in Belgium)
2. Flemish (a group of Dutch dialects spoken in Belgium)

• bailaor, bailaora

• “flamenco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish flamenco.

flamenco c

1. (music, dance) flamenco

• flamenco in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• flamenco in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)