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reggae

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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reg·gae /ˈreɡeɪ/ noun [uncountable]  APMa kind of popular music originally from Jamaica, with a strong regular beat 雷鬼乐〔源自牙买加的一种节奏强劲的流行音乐〕
Examples from the Corpus
reggaeEveryone tapped their toes and got into the swing a reggae one rather than an electoral one.One day I went to the nearby yacht club where a open-air reggae festival continued well into the night.Here you can snorkel or simply relax with a beer and enjoy the sounds of Neville's calypso and reggae music.Funk, jazz and reggae influence their sound, but the result never dips into a Western dirge.But whereas calypso now only rarely contains a political message reggae almost always does.But Cirrito is quick to point out that Rastafarianism is a religion, whereas reggae is a beat.If Island were having hits with reggae music, Virgin should be too.
Origin reggae (1900-2000) Jamaican English rege rags
reg·gae nounChineseSyllable
kind popular Jamaica, with originally a from Corpus a music of strong


reggae
reggae /ˈreɡeɪ/ noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1900-2000
 Language: Jamaican English
 Origin: rege 'rags'
a kind of popular music originally from Jamaica, with a strong regular beat


reg·gaeBrE /ˈreɡeɪ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈreɡeɪ/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a type of popular music with strong rhythms, developed in Jamaica in the 1960s 雷盖乐(20 世纪 60 年代于牙买加兴起的一种节奏强劲的流行音乐)