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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

/ ˈ²õæ±ô²õÉ™ /

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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Origin of salsa1

First recorded in 1845–50, and in 1970–75 salsa fordefs 2, 3; from Latin American Spanish, Spanish: literally, “sauceâ€; the dance and music were probably so called originally because of the mixture of styles
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Origin of salsa1

C20: from Spanish: sauce
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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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She has also been accused of cultural appropriation for recording straight-ahead salsa tunes — an unfair accusation to this writer, considering that she is a dedicated student and collector of Afro-Caribbean music.

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You’ll make two different salsas and tortillas and even fish for your trout on their on-site fish farm.

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