country dance
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From Time Magazine Archive
Contra-dance is better than country-dance, the latter word being a corruption; but it has become admissible from long use.
From Every-Day Errors of Speech by Meredith, L. P.
It was not quadrille dancing, nor minuet dancing, nor even country-dance dancing.
From The Battle of Life by Dickens, Charles
In the country, you know, any stranger is company, and we're glad to take up with the butler in a country-dance, and happy if he 'll do us the favour.
From The Beaux-Stratagem by Farquhar, George
Miss Linton," he exclaimed, seizing her hand fervently—they were seated on a sofa in the back drawing-room, while the others were labouring through a country-dance in the front—"Miss Linton, hear me for a moment.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
