Romaika

English

Proper noun

Romaika

1. A Greek leaping dance.
   • 1827, Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, Etc.‎^[1], page 168:

     There is an extreme difference in the character of the two dances; the latter, wild, uncouth, and abounding in strange gestures; the Romaika, graceful, though sometimes lively, and well fitted to display the beauty of attitude in the human form.

2. Alternative form of Romaic (“modern Greek language”)