beguine
/bi'gi:n/
📖 中文释义
- n. 比津舞
🧩 词形变化
复数 beguines
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life
- n. music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance
- n. a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba