Definitions for tarantella

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tarantella tar·an·tel·la

Spelling: [tar-uh n-tel-uh]

IPA: /ˌtær ənˈtɛl ə/

Tarantella is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in tarantella (aaaellnrtt).

Definitions for tarantella

noun

1. a rapid, whirling southern Italian dance in very quick sextuple, originally quadruple, meter, usually performed by a single couple, and formerly supposed to be a remedy for tarantism.
2. a piece of music either for the dance or in its rhythm.

Origin of tarantella

1775-85; Italian, equivalent to Tarant(o) Taranto + -ella -elle

Examples for tarantella

There is singing with dancing—the "Apache," the "tarantella."

The sorrow died out of her eyes and was replaced by a fierce defiance; and her fingers broke into a tarantella of wild sounds.

He no longer danced the tarantella with the careless abandon of a boy.

It wasn't the tarantella only that led him this long wandering.

Delarey seemed to him like a tarantella in repose, if such a thing could be.

Then follow the feast and the balls, at which they will dance the cerca, and the marsiliana, and the tarantella.

It's good when the blood calls one to the tarantella, isn't it?

Was there not in the air the thin sound of a reed flute playing a tarantella?

The tarantella—that was the dance of the soil here, the dance of the blood.

The tarantella then was no more than an interlude in a play.