Negative comment involving the French debut for Ravel — this piece? (6)
I believe the answer is:
bolero
'debut for ravel this piece?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'negative comment involving the french' is the wordplay.
'negative comment' becomes 'boro' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'involving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'boro' going around 'le' is 'BOLERO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bolero that I've seen before include "attire" , "Ravel work; jacket" , "Kind of jacket or dramatic music by Ravel" , "Arrange to rob Leo during the dance" , "Spanish dance - item of clothing" .)