Meaning of Mambo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
   countable, uncountable
2. A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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⟳.”

“The manbo showed her how to take⟳ small handfuls of liquid and spread⟳ it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.”

“In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.”

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