Pachangas

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Mar 23 21:10:57 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:41 PM, crawford <neil at typog.co.uk> wrote:
> just how do 'pachangas' equate to breasts?

Whoa! You got me. Till I read your post, I thought of _pachanga_ as
only the name of one of my favorite Afro-Cuban dance rhythms. (Cf.,
e.g. the appropriately-titled "La Pachanga," by Rene Touzet, available
from iTunes.)

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