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: a national courtship folk dance of Mexico performed by two people in which the man throws a sombrero on the ground and the woman signifies acceptance of him as her lover by dancing on its brim and then putting it on her head — compare jarabe

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“Hat dance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hat%20dance. Accessed 30 Jun. 2022.

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