After Cole Porter wrote the song "Begin the beguine", the dance became more widely known beyond the Caribbean.    From LearnThat.org.  [wikipedia]

Folks, I'll be honest with you here: I have no idea what a "beguine" is, and while this might just be me copping an ego, I'm pretty sure that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris's Invincible Super-Blog] Reference

Rhymes with beguine, "if you remember that old song.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of the Pier]

Andrea Schacht: The novels about the beguine Almut Bossart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader Interview: Eva] Reference

Assuming we were loved at one time to beguine with of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Axelrod: Obama "thought very long and hard about" about opening up the CIA interrogation memos.] Reference

Because I'm a music guy, I decided to begin the beguine by working on my own personal play list for my personal Obama victory party.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Wild: An Embarrassingly Premature Obama Victory Party Mix] Reference

Let us “begin the beguine” at the beginning, with Tom Dyja, brilliant novelist who encouraged me to have fun rather than write something wrenching.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Flight Up] Reference

From these women arose a new type of religious woman, the beguine. 7 These women took temporary vows of chastity, while embracing apostolic poverty and a life of prayer combined with service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference

Some vitae indicate the language of the materials that the women read, as when the foundress of Engelthal, a beguine in Nuremberg named Alheid, read in German to her young community over meals. 17 Other vitae indicate the language that the women (and those associated with them) sang or spoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference

And now the palace of glass was shivered, and she was forsaken for a peasant beguine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

Andrea Schacht (about the beguine Almut Bossart) and Nalini Singh (Psy/Changeling Romance).    From Wordnik.com.  [Reader Interview: Eva] Reference

This works swell; Porter's hit doesn't sound much like a beguine in this take, but it really swings in the manner of -- well, one of those 1950s Sinatra collaborations with Riddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variety.com] Reference

But to make a clean breast of her poor girlish worldliness, before she became a beguine, she confessed to her mother the receipt of the letter -- the cruel letter that had killed her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Portraits] Reference

Most Web workers are fixing what's broken or adding to existing infrastructure, although in the area of Web application development we do see some opportunity to begin the beguine, as it were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boagworld recommends] Reference

13Many of the German Dominican houses began as beguinages or beguine-like communities, created under the influence of the women's religious movement of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. 16 The female Dominicans were the offspring of this women's religious movement and the new male mendicants, cultivated in the rich diversity of thirteenth-century religious life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference

And what a week to begin the beguine.    From Wordnik.com.  [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference

(What's a "beguine"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

"You begin the beguine in Salem?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris's Invincible Super-Blog] Reference

"stretch out and wait" - the smiths; "my love life" - morrissey; "mockingbirds" - grant lee buffalo; "pressure drop" - the specials; "better than ice cream" - sarah mclachlan; "analyze" - the cranberries; "it must be love" - madness; "begin the beguine" - artie shaw; "step aside" - sleater-kinney; too many others to list.    From Wordnik.com.  [vintagegrrrl Diary Entry] Reference

A weighty matter indeed for me; nor know I a soul in the world, to whom, though well able, I would grant such a request, save to you alone: and this I say not for friendship's sake alone, albeit I love you as I ought, but for that your discourse is so fraught with wisdom, that 'tis enough to make a beguine start out of her boots, much more, then, to incline me to change my purpose; and the more I have of your company, the wiser I repute you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron, Volume II] Reference