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English Dictionary: polka by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
polka
n
  1. music performed for dancing the polka
  2. a Bohemian dance with 3 steps and a hop in fast time
v
  1. dance a polka
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Polka \Pol"ka\, n. [Pol. Polka a Polish woman: cf. F. & G.
      polka.]
      1. A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is
            performed by two persons in common time.
  
      2. (Mus.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4
            measure, with the third quaver accented.
  
      {Polka jacket}, a kind of knit jacket worn by women.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Polka
  
      An {object-oriented} parallel {logic programming}
      language, built on top of {Parlog}.
  
      ["Polka: A Parlog Object-Oriented Language", Andrew Davison,
      TR, Parlog Group, Imperial College, London 1988].
  
      (1995-01-31)
  
  
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