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語源

Borrowed from Spanish merengue, from French meringue. Doublet of meringue.

発音

• IPA: /məˈɹɛŋɡeɪ/

名詞

merengue (countable and uncountable, plural merengues)

1. (music, uncountable) A type of music common in the Caribbean, originally associated with the Dominican Republic.
   • 2007 January 7, Alex Mindlin, “For a Shuttered Marina, Some Regret, Some Relief”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 11 April 2021:

     The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts.

2. A song performed in this style.
3. A dance to this style of music.
   • 2011, Elizabeth Drake-Boyt, Latin Dance, →ISBN, page 86:

     If Trujillo said everybody had to dance the merengue, then everybody danced the merengue, for so feared was he by Dominicans that it was said that even a glance from him had the power to kill someone from across the street.

動詞

merengue (third-person singular simple present merengues, present participle merenguing, simple past and past participle merengued)

1. (intransitive) To dance to merengue music.