cakewalk
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in the US in the past, an entertainment in which African-American people danced using complicated steps, sometimes to win a prize:
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Cakewalks generally took place at get-togethers on plantations where Black people had been enslaved, both before and after emancipation in the Southern United States.
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music written for a cakewalk:
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He published his first composition, a cakewalk, in 1899.