Biguine vs. Beguine

Biguinenoun

(music) A style of music that originated in Martinique in the 19th century, combining the traditional bélé music with the polka.

Biguine

Biguine ( big-IN, French: [biɡin]; Antillean Creole: bigin) is a rhythm-centric style of music that originated from Saint Pierre, Martinique in the 19th century. It fuses Bèlè and 19th-century French ballroom dance steps with African rhythms.

Beguinenoun

A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.

Beguinenoun

A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

Beguinenoun

(Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life

Beguinenoun

music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance

Beguinenoun

a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba