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salsa

[ sahl-suh; Spanish sahl-sah ]

noun

  1. Mexican Cooking. a hot sauce of tomatoes and chile peppers with onion and garlic, and sometimes seasoned with cumin or fresh cilantro, often used as a condiment or served as a dip.
  2. a lively, vigorous type of contemporary Latin American popular music, blending predominantly Cuban rhythms with elements of jazz, rock, and soul music.
  3. a ballroom dance of Puerto Rican origin, performed to this music, similar to the mambo, but faster with the accent on the first beat instead of the second beat of each measure.


verb (used without object)

  1. to dance the salsa.

salsa

/ ˈæə /

noun

  1. a type of Latin American big-band dance music
  2. a dance performed to this kind of music
  3. Mexican cookery a spicy tomato-based sauce
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of salsa1

First recorded in 1845–50, and in 1970–75 salsa fordefs 2, 3; from Latin American Spanish, Spanish: literally, “sauce”; the dance and music were probably so called originally because of the mixture of styles
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Word History and Origins

Origin of salsa1

C20: from Spanish: sauce
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Example Sentences

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Still, he has found work fixing cars and trucks; together they cater birthday parties and baby showers, providing large buffets of meat, rice, beans and salsas.

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The capital’s once thriving nightlife, with its packed salsa and meringue clubs, went dark.

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Beyond nut milks, pestos and Romesco sauce, nuts are particularly vital in Mexican and Mexican-American cuisine, enriching salsas and sauces with texture, richness and depth.

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A blend of whispering salsa, R&B and trippy pop, the album chronicled the duo’s complicated return to Puerto Rico from New York following the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

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He became the first known salsa instructor in the U.K.

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