bossa nova
noun/ˌbɒsə ˈnəʊvə/
/ˌbɑːsə ˈnəʊvə/
[uncountable, countable]- a style of Brazilian popular music, popular in the 1960sTopics Musicc2Word Origin1960s: from Portuguese, from bossa ‘tendency’ and nova (feminine of novo) ‘new’.
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