country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
Ziganka, zi-gan′ka, n. a Russian country-dance, the music for such, usually quick, with a drone bass.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Elizabeth played one country-dance, Lady Bridges the other, which she made Henry dance with her, and Miss Finch played the Boulangeries.
From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by Austen-Leigh, William
Now, if we can knock the Comte off a couple of points, in passing, all his fellows astern will follow, and the Warspite and Blenheim and Thunderer will slip by like girls in a country-dance!
From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore
She replied that Henry Harford had engaged her, at the last ball, for this country-dance.
From Stories for Helen by Leslie, Eliza
