country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

Away went the band at once, and down the middle I flew with my partner, to the measure of a quick country-dance that no human legs could keep time to.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

You are thrown on your back immediately, the conversation is stopped like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

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

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