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Original entry ↗noun
A voodoo priestess (in Haiti) · A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo perform this dance.
From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).
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