contredanse

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Many sections resemble contredanse or quadrille: ballroom arrangements of circles, lines, stars; dancers holding hands as they pass.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

The habanera and its contredanse antecedents had a highly distinctive accompanying rhythm of four beats, which in musical notation - as in the opening of the Bizet song - looks like this.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Flocks of old gulls, enormous as hens, fluttered with evolutions like a contredanse upon its glossy surface.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

The French contredanse was borrowed from the English ‘country-dance’.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

"Not a minuet?—den a minuet de la cour, a cotillon, or contredanse, or reel; vatever mademoiselle please vill do us honneur."

From Tales and Novels — Volume 01 by Edgeworth, Maria