mambo
verbEtymology From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).
1
To perform this dance.
mambo
nounUK /ˈmæmbəʊ/ · US /ˈmɑmboʊ/
Etymology From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).
1
A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
- The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47:
- The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 219
1 more example
- In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.May 2018, Kyrah Malika Daniels, Whiteness in the Ancestral Waters: Race, Religion, and Conversion within North American Buddhism and Haitian Vodou, The Journal of Interreligious Studies, Issue 23
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A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
- Derived terms
- horizontal mambo, mambo sauce