calinda

alternative kalenda · alternative kalinda

1. uncountableAn African-American style of dance (or its associated music) in the southern US and parts of Latin America.

   The British colonies did not permit these dances, so the calinda and the bamboula did not flourish in the plantation societies of Virginia and Carolina.

   2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 74

2. uncountableA Caribbean martial art involving stickfighting.