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noun music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella
noun a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons
originBorrowed from Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”), on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0