(Spaniards use the word "seguidilla") was of Moorish origin. From Wordnik.com. [Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1] Reference
Whether the little seguidilla meant any thing in the lips of the songstress, I do not presume to say. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
When the seguidilla -- during the continuance of which Luis had gained his post of observation -- was brought to a close, there seemed to ensue a sort of break in the amusements of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
Andalusian seguidilla under the window of the Flemish burgomaster's daughter?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Travels and Roadside Sketches] Reference
The next striking number is the dance tempo, "Presso il bastion de Seviglia," a seguidilla sung by Carmen while bewitching Don José. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference
Percy sings a Spanish seguidilla, or a German lied, or a French romance, or a Neapolitan canzonet, which, I am bound to say, excites very little attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
A: A lot of it is Spanish music - a tango, a seguidilla - it's got a little different feel from what people expect from a traditionally English-sounding choir. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
Two singers of the highway are there, leaning on the graveyard wall, and they intone, with a tambourine and a guitar, an old seguidilla of Spain, bringing here the warm and somewhat Arabic gaieties of the lands beyond the frontiers. From Wordnik.com. [Ramuntcho] Reference
Sombrero, who is singing an Andalusian seguidilla under the window of the Flemish burgomaster’s daughter?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Travels and Roadside Sketches] Reference
The ladies leaned forward over the window-sill, enjoying the freshness of the night; and one of them, the lively brunette who had taken a part in the seguidilla, plucked some sprays of jasmine which reared their pointed leaves and white blossoms in front of the window, and began to entwine them in the hair of her companion -- a pale and somewhat pensive beauty, in whose golden locks and blue eyes the Gothic blood of old Spain was yet to be traced. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
"There is a seguidilla I hear everywhere," said the doctor; "and I never hear it without feeling the better for listening. From Wordnik.com. [Remember the Alamo] Reference
And the light seguidilla frame; 30. From Wordnik.com. [0 108. Farewell to Cuba by Maria Gowen Brooks. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
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