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Country-dance   /kˈəntri-dæns/   Listen
Country-dance

verb
1.
Perform a contradance.  Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, contredanse.





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"Country-dance" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ball. My Lady Warrington and her humble servant, as being strangers in the country, and English people as it were, were permitted by Madam to attend the assembly from which she of course absented herself. I had the honour to dance a country-dance with the lady of Mount Vernon, whom I found a most lively, pretty, and amiable partner; but am bound to say that my wife's praises of her were received with a very grim acceptance by my mother, when Lady Warrington came to recount the events of the evening. Could not Sir ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... and an open-eyed glance full of meaning. No reason less urgent than this could have prevailed on Nancy to give Godfrey this opportunity of sitting apart with her. As for Godfrey, he was feeling so happy and oblivious under the long charm of the country-dance with Nancy, that he got rather bold on the strength of her confusion, and was capable of leading her straight away, without leave asked, into the adjoining small parlour, where ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot


Words linked to "Country-dance" :   contradance, folk dance, folk dancing, landler, dance, square dance, longways, contredanse, contra danse, sashay, longways dance, country dancing, do-si-do, square dancing, promenade, trip the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, swing


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