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Terpsichorean

adjective
1.
Of or relating to dancing.





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"Terpsichorean" Quotes from Famous Books



... men have been honoring the joyful occasion by a liberal patronage of the flowing bowl, and are already mildly hilarious; stringed instruments are twanged by the musical members of the great family, while several others, misinterpreting the inspiration of raki punch for terpsichorean talent are prancing wildly about the tent. Middle-aged matrons are here in plenty, housewifely persons, finding their chief enjoyment in catering to the gastronomic pleasures of the others; while a score or two of blooming maidens stand coyly aloof, watching the festive merry-makings of the men; ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... the orchestra to play, the choristers to sing, the whizzer to make his mimic storm, and the wand bearers to dance. The latter, keeping perfect time with the orchestra, went through a series of figures not unlike those of a modern quadrille. In our terpsichorean nomenclature the "calls" might have thus been given: "Forward and back. Chassez twice. Face partners. Forward and back. Forward and bow. Forward and embrace. Forward and wave wands at partners," &c. When several of these evolutions had been performed in ...
— The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony • Washington Matthews


Words linked to "Terpsichorean" :   chorus girl, Galina Sergeevna Ulanova, performer, Ginger Rogers, Twyla Tharp, Fred Astaire, showgirl, St. Denis, Waslaw Nijinsky, Galina Ulanova, Martha Graham, Virginia McMath, Alicia Alonso, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Nureyev, Merce Cunningham, Kelly, dancing-master, Nureyev, Mitchell, taxi dancer, pavlova, kachina, exotic dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky, Astaire, nautch girl, graham, Ruth St. Denis, Tudor, Balanchine, Virginia Katherine McMath, Duncan, belly dancer, Arthur Mitchell, Baryshnikov, Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, shearer, ballet master, tapper, Karsavina, ballet mistress, exotic belly dancer, Tallchief, Judith Jamison, Markova, Agnes George de Mille, Lilian Alicia Marks, Vestris, stepper, Agnes de Mille, Eugene Curran Kelly, Ulanova, Rogers, Cunningham, Dame Alicia Markova, Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Salome, tap dancer, Moira Shearer, Alonso, Jamison, Ruth Saint Denis, terpsichore, Isadora Duncan, ballet dancer, Leonide Fedorovitch Massine, hoofer, Tharp, performing artist, Maria Tallchief, George Balanchine, chorine, Nijinsky, Antony Tudor, Montez, Shawn, Saint Denis, dance master, Ted Shawn, Fonteyn, de Mille, Tamara Karsavina, Lola Montez, Massine, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Gene Kelly, Gaetan Vestris


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