📚 Capoeira, noun. 🔉 /ˌkapʊˈeɪrə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (mass noun): A system of physical discipline and movement originating among Brazilian slaves, treated as a martial art and dance form. ❗️ Examples: 1. Joseph's - slow, formal, and pristinely beautiful - is based on the Brazilian martial arts form capoeira. 2. Washington incorporates a range of movement idioms - acrobatics, African dance, capoeira and social dancing - but always with an eye toward line, height and pinpoint accuracy. 3. It takes five minutes to absorb the sort of movement Elkins devises: a mix of modern dance, martial arts like aikido and capoeira, hip-hop, and maneuvers from contact improvisation. 4. He's also devoted to capoeira, a Brazilian martial art. 5. She even mixed in some capoeira, a martial art from Brazil. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic