beguine

beguine has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.
• n.. a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba
• n.. music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance
• n.. (Roman Catholic Church) a member of a lay sisterhood (one of several founded in the Netherlands in the 12th and 13th centuries); though not taking religious vows the sisters followed an austere life