In the Bahia region of Brazil, where Afro-Brazilian culture is the strongest, burr gherkins are called maxixe (mah-SHEE-shay) and they form the most important ingredient in a traditional dish called and Your Budget. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles] Reference
The accomplished musicians bring a rich repertoire of Bellinati's original compositions and arrangements written over Brazilian styles such as maxixe, seresta and Brazilian waltz. From Wordnik.com. Reference
As they entered, the orchestra were sounding the preliminary whimpers to a maxixe, a tune full of castanets and facile faintly languorous violin harmonies, appropriate to the crowded winter grill teeming with an excited college crowd, high-spirited at the approach of the holidays. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
The maxixe in some ways put Brazil on the dancing map. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
They were just starting to do the -- maxixe, wasn't it. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
To my eye there is nothing more charming than a well-danced maxixe. From Wordnik.com. [We Three] Reference
"In the 1920s, the maxixe took over the ballrooms of Rio de Janeiro.". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
The maxixe was in vogue for only a few decades in the late 19th and early. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
With maxixe (pronounced mah-SHEESH '), Mangan and others at UMass grow chipilin. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
With maxixe (pronounced mah-SHEESH '), Mangan and others at UMass grow chipilin (cheep-LEEN'). From Wordnik.com. [Channel 13 Sports] Reference
Born out of the marriage of Afro-Brazilian and European dance, maxixe is sometimes described as Africanized polka. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
Richard Duree of Costa Mesa instructed two ragtime dance classes on Sunday, teaching his students the waltz, tango, foxtrot and maxixe. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference
Both Brazilian music and the tunes of Tin Pan Alley accompanied the dancers of the maxixe, which was brighter and snappier than the also then-popular Argentine tango. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
Lise was exalted, feverish, apparently possessed by some high secret; her eyes shone, and when she crossed the room she whistled bars of ragtime and executed mincing steps of the maxixe. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
All the girls in the "dancings" and sportsmen at the bar who like a fox-trot or a maxixe have been given to believe, by people who ought to know better, that they are more sensitive to music than those who prefer Beethoven. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
Can I have the pleasure of the next maxixe, Miss Bumpus? ". From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
They were just starting to do the — maxixe, wasn’t it. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
"So I hear," says I. "And it's all right if she don't tackle the maxixe. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy, Private Sec.] Reference
A maxixe, a tune full of castanets and facile faintly languorous violin harmonies, appropriate to the crowded winter grill teeming with an excited college crowd, high-spirited at the approach of the holidays. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
It was almost like a maxixe, but. From Wordnik.com. [Over Paradise Ridge A Romance] Reference
"This ain't no place to practice the maxixe.". From Wordnik.com. [Torchy, Private Sec.] Reference
Apparently my maxixe with her was to be external. From Wordnik.com. [Police!!!] Reference
Which the maxixe spasms. From Wordnik.com. [[Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade] Reference
Well, then, the maxixe. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays] Reference
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