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beguine   (TTS Sound)

The noun beguine has 3 senses

• Beguine -- ((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)


• beguine -- (music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance)


• beguine -- (a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba)