Usage examples (4)

• Square -- now Beauregard Square -- and here, on Sunday nights, wild dances used to occur -- the "bamboula" and "calinda" -- and sinister spells were cast.
• Just inside, Congo Square -- where two centuries ago enslaved Africans and free people of color spent Sundays dancing and drumming to the bamboula rhythm, seeding the...
• It was then they danced the bamboula, incessantly.
• When the goombay -- a flour-barrel drum -- sounded, the town knew the bamboula had begun.