country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

The fiddler was playing some sort of country-dance and all the company, except the very old people, were dancing and singing, some of the men indulging in most wonderful steps and capers.

From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

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

She replied that Henry Harford had engaged her, at the last ball, for this country-dance.

From Stories for Helen by Leslie, Eliza

While dancing with her in a country-dance one evening at her house, she exclaimed, on hearing a sudden sonorous twang, "Dear me! there is one of the chords of my harp snapped."

From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny