Bossa nova a genre of Brazilian music (while it is commonly translated as "new wave", the word "bossa" originally means "small elevation on a surface" like the bump on a camel's back or a lump resulting from a blow, and more informally "bossa" came to mean "a way, a quality" of doing something with grace, that makes you stand out)
New wave music, in the United Kingdom, the United States and various enclaves in the late 1970s and through the 1980s