Noun: flamenco
| Singular | flamenco |
| Plural | flamencos |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian:]
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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. [2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like flamenco
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 flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming). See: Spanish Nouns '
flamenco', Dutch Nouns '
Vlaming'.