pizzica

Borrowed from Italian pizzica.

pizzica

1. (dance) A popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula.
   • 2007 January 19, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     With strings, accordion, flute and lots of tambourine, it pays particular attention to the pizzica, a galloping six-beat dance related to the tarantella and long used as a faith-healing cure for spider bites.

• pizzicata

• pizzica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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pizzica f (plural pizziche)

1. (dance) pizzica

• → English: pizzica

• tarantella
• tarantismo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pizzica

1. inflection of pizzicare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• pizzica on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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