A Spanish dance, grave and stately; so called from the ballad-music to which it was danced. The ballad begins—
“Lʹsta noche le mataron al caballero.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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