country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

Contra-dance is better than country-dance, the latter word being a corruption; but it has become admissible from long use.

From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.

Gavotte, ga-vot′, n. a lively kind of dance, somewhat like a country-dance, originally a dance of the Gavotes, the people of Gap, in the Upper Alps: the music for such a dance.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

It's like the old country-dance of that name, where there are two gentlemen to one lady, and one has her, and the other hasn't, but comes limping up behind to make out the figure.

From The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles

I can vouch for old Tom and Miss Croply leading off a country-dance the same evening in Prior Cottage; but it is two-and-twenty years ago.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Chambers, Robert