alavantu

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === alavantú (eye dialect) === Etymology === Borrowed from French en avant toute (“forward ho!”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧la‧van‧tu === Interjection === alavantu! (Brazil) A command used during quadrilha dances to tell all of the participants to go forward. Part of a set of festa junina expressions. ==== Usage notes ==== This interjection is most commonly written alavantú, with a nonstandard accent mark. ==== See also ==== anarriê balancê changê