contredanse
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Many sections resemble contredanse or quadrille: ballroom arrangements of circles, lines, stars; dancers holding hands as they pass.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
The habanera and its contredanse antecedents had a highly distinctive accompanying rhythm of four beats, which in musical notation - as in the opening of the Bizet song - looks like this.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Flocks of old gulls, enormous as hens, fluttered with evolutions like a contredanse upon its glossy surface.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Frances Douglas
The questions passing from lip to lip, late on in the night, and after another contredanse had come to a close.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
Less than a month after mid-summer, the hour was not so much into morning, and there were some tireless votaries of Terpsichore inclined for still another contredanse, by way of wind up.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
Previous to the introduction of quadrilles and country dances or contredanses, the inaptitude of nine-tenths of mankind for dancing was still more eminently demonstrated in the murders of the minuet.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
