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country-dance

Speech parts

1. country-dance - Noun

2. country-dance - Verb

Meaning

See Contradance.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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country dance

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Examples

But the vogue for the waltz and the quadrille ousted the country dance from English ballrooms in the early 19th century, though Scottish country dance remained popular. Source: Internet

Britannia Coconut Dancers are an English country dance troupe from Bacup whose routines are steeped in local folk tradition. Source: Internet

History A village country dance - engraving by Abraham Bosse, 1633. Source: Internet

Hughes, pp. 144–45 In The Sorcerer, there is a country dance in "If you'll marry me". Source: Internet

English country dance survived well beyond the Baroque era and eventually spread in various forms across Europe and its colonies, and to all levels of society. Source: Internet

Johnson had been playing for a few weeks at a country dance in a town about convert from Greenwood. Source: Internet

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