walsa

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Noun

walsa f (plural walsas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of valsa.
    • 1839 April, Lopes de Mendonça, “A sociedade e os bailes”, in Revista contemporanea de Portugal e Brazil, volume 1, Lisbon: Typographia do Futuro, page 336:
      À luz desta idéa, a contradança é um exercicio parlamentar, a polka uma perigosa seducção, e a walsa um preludio fascinador das delicias que o amor nos promette!
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    • 1904, António José da Costa Couto Sá de Albergaria, “Denuncia” (chapter XIII), in Os Filhos do Padre Anselmo, Porto: Chardron, page 226:
      Pelas onze horas da noite, e tendo já sahido o commendador Garcia, Leonor, com a janella do centro aberta e a sala illuminada, sentou-se ao piano e começou executando a walsa Leonor, conforme o seu anonymo correspondente lhe havia indicado.
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