"Kumparsa" is a word in CEBUANO
kumparsa n {1} ensemble of plucked, stringed instruments.
{2} folk dance interlude at a dance.
{2a} folk dance pageant, pre-sented as a contest among groups in a school or among di?
erent schools.
v {1} [A13; b(1)] have music from a string band.
{2} [A1; b(1)] present this sort of dance pageant.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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