| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| seguidilla |
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| SYLLABICATION: | se·gui·dil·la |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s g  -d  y, -dly, s g-, sg-thlyä |
| NOUN: | 1. A Spanish stanza form of four to seven lines. 2a. A lively Spanish dance. b. The music for this dance, in triple meter. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Spanish, diminutive of seguida, sequence, from feminine past participle of seguir, to follow, from Vulgar Latin *sequere, from Latin sequ . See sekw-1 in Appendix I.
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