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- noun Plural form of
samba . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
samba .
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Examples
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I presume it is because the music has been composed by a Brazilian, Berna Ceppas, who combined bossa nova and sambas, with funk and electro music.
Jay Weston: Cirque du Soleil's Ovo Drove Me Buggy... In a Nice Way Jay Weston 2012
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Where Cole's voice, on boleros and sambas especially, was among the silkiest sounds known to man, Mr. Murray has made his ensemble at once as rough as sandpaper and as smooth as satin.
The Jazz Scene: Giving Cole the Royal Treatment Will Friedwald 2012
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The Group, which made brilliant use of Caribbean rhythms calypsos and sambas, played nothing but extreme joy.
A Last Weekend of Virtuosos and Visionaries Will Friedwald 2011
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Euro and American pop have no sway outside of there and the far east, Latin America and Africa have completely different pop musics, more R and B influenced with a cross current back and forth with the blues, sambas and reggae too.
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As a USO hostess fed up with congas, rumbas and sambas, she performed a rollicking number called "South America, Take It Away."
Comedienne Betty Garrett, '40s co-star of Frank Sinatra, dies at 91 Emma Brown 2011
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The Group, which made brilliant use of Caribbean rhythms calypsos and sambas, played nothing but extreme joy.
A Last Weekend of Virtuosos and Visionaries Will Friedwald 2011
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Len basically says he's the barometer against which all future male celeb sambas will be measured.
Dancing with the Stars Episode Recap: Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 2011
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The group plays boleros, fast dances, sambas, ballads (and even "My Favorite Things" on its new album, "Pucusana") in a highly sympatico blend of North American improv a nd South American beats.
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Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Se Tu M'ami themes, for the piano and cello, turn into cinematic laments, and if the Modern Jazz Quartet-like toying with sambas and waltzes on Wesley's Gavotte is bland, the outbursts of Hammond swing, bass and vibes on the Bach pieces are the opposite.
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To see him in person, as I had a chance to do recently at New York's Terminal 5, is to see a sinuous, warm, joyous show in which Veloso's vocals and sambas are backed up by a young, edgy band.
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