country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
It was a regular jig-a-jig—a country-dance of pousette, down the middle, and right and left.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
Hay, hā, n. a country-dance with winding movement.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
This arrangement seemed to promise a country-dance, but when the music began, Dick found that a form of minuet was intended.
From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson
You are thrown on your back immediately; the conversation is stopt like a country-dance by those who do not know the figure.
From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Conklin, Mary Greer
