Usage of "polka music"

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Central European dance and also a genre of dance music.

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Examples for "polka"

Have you seen my coat-tails fly?' The polka was merry and unattractive. 
 Agahta christie: an autobiography 

Jazz might be second to polka as the deadest music in America- 
 Lowboy 

Tennyson is dancing the polka and smoking cloud upon cloud at Cheltenham. 
 The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 1 of 2) 

Then he paused; the polka would not come-theother voice was louder. 
 The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes 

Francesca was gliding around the tables in a long black-and-white polka-dotted cape. 
 Torment 

They had probably gone to a barn dance down in the Bohemian township. 
 One of Ours 

You're carrying a lady there, not swinging some wench at a barn dance. 
 The Name of the Wind 

It's a little like being at an overly aggressive barn dance. 
 The Irish Times 

Often I have heard it sung in shrill, piping voice at harvest supper or barn dance. 
 Tea-Table Talk 

Now came the festive barn dance. 
 The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest 

Usage of polka music in English

It sounded like polka music played by an orchestra dying of bubonic plague. 
 Under the dome: a novel 

I heard polka music oompahing cheerfully through the hall as I approached the room. 
 Dead beat 

He picked up the phone, and a second later I heard polka music pumping through the little speaker. 
 Dead beat 

I watched him go and said, after the door swung shut, "Bunny slippers and polka music." 
 Death masks 

Spirited polka music was pumped out from the Village Bakery on to a sidewalk still littered with broken glass from shattered windows. 
 The Guardian 

Polka music filled the room. 
 Dead beat 

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Meanings of polka music in English