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How to pronounce calypso in English?

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Synonyms calypso bulbosa, fairy-slipper
Type of orchid, orchidaceous plant
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Type of sea nymph

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Soca, calypso, and reggae set the mood for Grenada's annual Carnival activities.
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Is it the fey humor or the calypso tunes that have made this movie a monster hit?
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The band played faster and louder, and a calypso singer went to the microphone.
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Calypso learns that to fit in with aristocrats she must never say what she thinks.
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What form of jazz, what form of blues, what form of calypso and from what era.
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It combines the melodic lilting sound of calypso with an insistent percussion.
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I give them the melody and they have to turn it into a calypso-sounding song.
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Soca music evolved from a fusion of calypso, cadence, and Indian instruments.
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He began singing calypso in 1967 and took the Junior Monarch title that year.
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  • Rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf
  • (Greek mythology) the sea nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years
  • Calypso is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor (LPM-1248) in 1956. The CD was released on April 28, 1992 . ...
  • The self-contained amphibious underwater Calypso 35mm film camera was conceived by the marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910u20141997), designed by Jean de Wouters and manufactured by Atoms in France. It was distributed by La Spirotechnique in Paris from 1960. The camera operates down to 200 feet / 60 meter below sea level. The Calypso was sometimes advertised as the u201CCALYPSO-PHOTu201D...
  • Calypso is a fictional villain in the Marvel Comics universe, who first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #209. She was created by Denny O'Neil and Alan Weiss.
  • Calypso is an international electronic ticketing standard for microprocessor contactless smartcards, originally designed by a group of European transit operators from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. ...
  • Calypso (/ku0259u02C8lu026Apsou028A/ ku0259-LIP-soh; Greek: u039Au03B1u03BBu03C5u03C8u03CE) is a moon of Saturn. It was discovered in 1980, from ground-based observations, by Dan Pascu, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, William A. Baum, and Douglas G. Currie, and was provisionally designated S/1980 S 25 (the 25th satellite of Saturn discovered in 1980)...
  • Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Calypso (/ku0259u02C8lu026Apsou028A/; Greek: u039Au03B1u03BBu03C5u03C8u03CE, Kalypsu014D) was a nymph in Greek mythology, who lived on the island of Ogygia, where she detained Odysseus for several years. She is generally said to be the daughter of Atlas the Titan.