Noun: merengue
| Singular | merengue |
| Plural | merengues |
Sample Sentences
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The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts. [2007 January 7, Alex Mindlin, “For a Shuttered Marina, Some Regret, Some Relief”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:]
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If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street. [2011, Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Latin Dance, →ISBN, page 86:]
Nouns inflected like merengue
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue. See: Spanish Nouns '
merengue', French Nouns '
meringue'.