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n. - A ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance; A folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements;

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  • Mr. SANABRIA: Right well this is - in Cuban music, it's what we call a rumba arietta (ph), an open rumba.
  • "The rumba is the hardest," said club president Janet Coley.
  • Bruno Tonioli called her rumba on Monday night "colder and more distant than Siberia."
  • Some suggest the rumba might be his way back to prominence, but I'm afraid he wouldn't look the part.
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