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country-dance
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun country-dance has 1 sense
- country-dance(n = noun.act) contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country dancing - a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line; Array is a kind of folk dance, folk dancing
has particulars: longways, longways dance, square dance, square dancing, do-si-do, promenade, sashay, swing, landler
Derived form verb country-dance1
Verb country-dance has 1 sense
- country-dance(v = verb.motion) contra danse, contradance, contredanse - perform a contradance; Array is one way to dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
Derived form noun country-dance1
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue country-dance
CIDE DICTIONARY
country-dance, n. [Prob. an adaptation of contradance.].
See Contradance. [1913 Webster]
"He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies."
[1913 Webster]
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