Meaning & use
bolero
Last updated
A short, waist-length jacket, or a slow Spanish dance in triple time.
See it in a sentence
She wore a lace bolero over her sleeveless dress.
The dancers performed a bolero to the rhythm of castanets.
A note on using this word
The word covers two unrelated meanings borrowed from Spanish: a style of short cropped jacket, and a traditional dance and musical form (famously used in Ravel's 'Boléro').
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bolero”, then compare your use with the examples above.
Your draft stays on this page and is not sent anywhere.