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Olé is a Spanish interjection used to cheer on or praise a performance commonly used in bullfighting and flamenco dance. [2] In flamenco music and dance, shouts of "olé" often accompany the dancer during and at the end of the performance, and a singer in cante jondo may emphasize the word "olé" with melismatic turns.
¡Ole! or ¡olé! is a Spanish interjection used to cheer on or praise a performance, especially associated with the audience of bullfighting and flamenco dance. The word is also commonly used in many other contexts in Spain, and has become closely associated with the country; therefore it is often used outside Spain in cultural representation ...
Ole (cantillation), a cantillation mark ("goes up") found in Psalms, Proverbs, and Job National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement , often abbreviated NOAA OLE Other Learning Experience, one of the components in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education
The chanson courtoise or grand chant was an early form of monophonic chanson, the chief lyric poetic genre of the trouvères. It was an adaptation to Old French of the Occitan canso. It was practised in the 12th and 13th centuries. Thematically, as its name implies, it was a song of courtly love, written usually by a man to his noble lover.
Ole (Hebrew: עוֹלֶה) a cantillation mark found in Psalms, Proverbs, and Job (the אמ״ת books). Ole is also sometimes used as a stress marker in texts without cantillation. Total occurrences
Anyway, it's obvious to me that, if the chant is indeed of Spanish origin, it must derive from the well-known chant heard in Spanish stadiums before the pandemia: oé, oé, oé, oé (4 times, not 3), a chant that was probably misheard by foreigners by mental association with the cliché word olé (a misspelling by the way: it's really ole).
The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...