mambo

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).

But the buildings were here long before the mambos reigned, and who built them, or why, no one knows. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

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