Incorrectly cachuca. [Sp.] A lively Spanish dance.
1840. Barham, Ingol. Leg., 480. A Court where it’s thought in a lord or a duke a Disgrace to fall short in the Brawls (their Cachouca).
1841. Thackeray, Profess. in Comic T. & Sk., II. 154. In a very short time Miss Binse … could dance the cachuca.
1842. Longf., Sp. Stud., I. iii. I see thee dance cachuchas.
1867. Miss Braddon, Aur. Floyd, i. 8. They themselves had beheld her leaping through gilded hoops, and dancing the cachuca upon six bare-backed steeds, in that sawdust-strewn arena.
