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Fox-trot   /fɑks-trɑt/   Listen
Fox-trot

noun
1.
A ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences.  Synonym: foxtrot.






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"Fox-trot" Quotes from Famous Books



... He had recently made the discovery that pretty girls may be quite interesting; and, moreover, one or two of them whom he had met at the school dances—when the young ladies from the Misses Bradshaws' seminary had come over, duly guarded and chaperoned, to one-step and fox-trot with the young gentlemen of the school—one or two of these young ladies had intimated a certain interest in him. So the feminine possibility across the road attracted his notice—only slightly, of course; the sophisticated metropolitan notice ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... a fox-trot along the rock-trail into Drowned Valley, now thoroughly understood that it was the only sanctuary left him for the moment. Egress to the southward was closed; to the eastward, also; and he was too wary to venture ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers



Words linked to "Fox-trot" :   ballroom dance, foxtrot, ballroom dancing



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