[Sp.] A Spanish or Moorish dance.
1670. Dryden, Conq. Granada, I. i. Fair Almahide … Prepares a Zambra to be danc’d this Night.
1832. W. Irving, Alhambra, II. 46. In wanton Seville, where black-eyed damsels dance the zambra under every orange grove.
1906. Ameer Ali, in 19th Cent., June, 942. The knights contended openly in the presence of ladies for the prize of valour, and often joined them in the graceful dance of the zambra, still practised by the southern Spaniards.
