Noun(1) a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake(2) an easy accomplishment(3) a strutting dance based on a march(4) was performed in minstrel shows(5) originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake(6) easy activity
Verb(1) perform the cakewalk dance
Noun(1) a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake(2) an easy accomplishment(3) a strutting dance based on a march(4) was performed in minstrel shows(5) originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake(6) easy activity
Verb(1) perform the cakewalk dance
(1) Her dance revue, Le Jazz Hot, included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty george and the cakewalk .(2) Starting with footage shot by Thomas Edison (yes, the Thomas Edison), this magnificent compilation takes us from dances like the cakewalk to the jitterbug.(3) Although I suspect the match will be a cakewalk , we are going to take it very seriously.(4) u2018To get established was not easy, it was not a cakewalk for me,u2019 she admits.(5) My Spanish exam was a cakewalk , I finished in about 20 minutes.(6) Tell me again why the Liberals are expected to cakewalk through the coming election?(7) Let's just get this part over with, then the rest will be a cakewalk .(8) As tough as it may be to get hired in political science, it's a cakewalk compared to getting a position in, say, English departments.(9) Pardon the mixed metaphor, but as those of us who rode the roller coaster from start to finish know, this isn't, alas, a team that's mastered the art of the cakewalk .(10) New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk , minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was not originally called swing, but rather jazz.(11) As a cultural form, the cakewalk originated on the antebellum plantation as a key vehicle of black resistance against enslavement.(12) The First Amendment, we should recall, would be a cakewalk if people expressed themselves within prescribed boundaries of acceptable speech.(13) I don't think it's going to be a cakewalk for us to stay there.(14) I learned that the cakewalk , a highstepping dance, began on Southern plantations in the 1840s.(15) winning the league won't be a cakewalk for them(16) It arose in the slavery period as an accompaniment to plantation dances like the cakewalk .
