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Country-dance

noun

A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line. Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country dancing.

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"Country-dance" Quotes from Famous Books

... Within gayety is supreme. A royal host, this Don Giovanni! Not only are there refreshments for all, but he has humored both classes of guests in the arrangement of the programme of dances. Let there be a minuet, a country-dance, and an allemande, he had said to Leporello in that dizzying song of instruction which whirls past our senses like a mad wind: "Finch' han dal vino." No one so happy as Mozart when it came to providing the ...

— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... and their families, and the idea was hailed with enthusiasm. The cornopean player was still on the ground. In five minutes the eleven and half a dozen of the Wellesburn and Marylebone men got partners somehow or another, and a merry country-dance was going on, to which every one flocked, and new couples joined in every minute, till there were a hundred of them going down the middle and up again; and the long line of school buildings looked gravely down on them, every window glowing with ...

— Tom Brown's Schooldays • Thomas Hughes

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