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Definition of: tarantella
(tar′ən·tel′ə) noun
A lively Neapolitan dance in 6/8 time: once thought to be a remedy for tarantism; also, the music written for it. [<Ital., dim. of Taranto Taranto; infl. by tarantola a tarantula]
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