[Sp.; lit. ‘folly,’ a. F. folie.] A Spanish dance similar to the fandango. Also, music for such a dance.
1772–84. Cook, Voy. (1790), II. 413. The dances practised here are sarabands and folias, which are slow dances; those which are quick are the canario, first used by the Canarians; the fandango, which is chiefly practised by the vulgar; and the rapetes, which nearly resembles our hornpipe.
