Bachata Definition
bə-chätə
noun
A style of bolero music originating in the Dominican Republic.
American Heritage
A Latin American dance for two people, performed to this music and involving a four-step pattern punctuated with a shake of the hips.
American Heritage
Origin of Bachata
American Spanish boisterous merrymaking, bachata shortening and alteration of cumbanchata augmentative of cumbancha boisterous merrymaking from augmentative or deprecative form of cumbé an Afro-Caribbean dance perhaps from Kongo kúmba to make noise
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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