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Romaika
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English
Proper noun
A Greek leaping dance.
en Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, Etc. 168 There is an extreme difference in the character of the two dances; the latter, wild, uncouth, and abounding in strange gestures; the Romaika, graceful, though sometimes lively, and well fitted to display the beauty of attitude in the human form. https://books.google.com/books?id=1C4ZEuJtkkMC&lpg=PA168&dq=%22the%20romaika%22&pg=PA168#v=onepage&q=%22the%20romaika%22&f=false 1827
en Romaic modern Greek language.