Romaika
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Romaika
- A Greek leaping dance.
- 1827, Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, Etc.[1], page 168:
- There is an extreme difference in the character of the two dances; the latter, wild, uncouth, and abounding in strange gestures; the Romaika, graceful, though sometimes lively, and well fitted to display the beauty of attitude in the human form.
- Alternative form of Romaic (“modern Greek language”)