country dance

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From Time Magazine Archive

An account of the country-dance, with the names of some of the old dance-tunes, has been given above.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

About one hundred couple stood up in each country-dance, but the rooms are so large and so judiciously lighted, that we did not feel at all warm.

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

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

I think Miss Fairfax dances very well; and Mrs. Weston is the very best country-dance player, without exception, in England.

From Emma by Austen, Jane