house

/ˈxaus/ · B1 · noun · m

music

house — music

🎧 Borrowed from English: house music, named after Chicago's Warehouse club

Spanish kept the English spelling but says it with a raspy j sound: jaus. The genre is named after The Warehouse, a Chicago club where DJ Frankie Knuckles played it in the early 1980s. It is masculine: el house.

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