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dandiya raas
(dan|diya raas)
Pronunciation:
/ˈdandɪə rɑːs/
noun
[
mass noun
]
a type of traditional Gujarati dance in which pairs of dancers hold a short stick in each hand and strike one another’s sticks in time to the music.
Origin:
Gujarati, from
dandiya
'sticks' (from
daṇḍi
'stick') and
raas
'dance'
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