Definition of "hula-hula" []

• A Hawaiian dance, hula (noun)

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• "Large crowds of mourners gathered on the palace grounds and “made the place a pandemonium every night with their howlings and wailings, beating of tom-toms and dancing of the at other times forbidden hula-hula by half-clad maidens to the music of songs of questionable decency chanted in honor of the deceased.”"
• "The night after that I tried palm trees, but that was no good, that one was another cliché, I could almost see hula-hula girls and hear ukes strumming."
• "He dryly noted the restrictions, encouraged by missionaries, on the storied “hula-hula” dance, “save at night, with closed doors,” and for an admission fee of “ten dollars.”"