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Priest or monk restricting awful erotic dancing (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lambada

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'dancing' is the definition.
(I know that lambada is an dancing)

'priest or monk restricting awful erotic' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'awful' could be 'bad' (similar in meaning) and 'bad' is present in the answer.
'priest' could be 'lama' (lama is a kind of priest) and 'lama' is present in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for lambada that I've seen before include "Erotic Brazilian dance" , "raunchy dance" , "Lively Brazilian dance" , "number of Brazilian revellers" , "few steps?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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