pizzica

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pizzica

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Unadapted borrowing from Italian pizzica, from the verb pizzicare (“to pinch”). Compare pizzicato.

noun pizzicas

countable, uncountable A popular traditional dance of Italy, originating on the Salento peninsula. With strings, accordion, flute and lots of tambourine, it pays particular attention to the pizzica, a galloping six-beat dance related to the tarantella and long used as a faith-healing cure for spider bites.

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@misc{pizzica_2026,
  title = {pizzica},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pizzica},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}