the dansant
Example Sentences
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A military string ensemble pumped out the dansant tunes in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace as Master Farceur Noel Coward, 70, was dubbed a knight of the realm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Saigon's Cercle Sportif bubbled with the dansant in the hot evenings.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had suggested the dansant that he might study her.
From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by Scott, John Reed
Somewhere on the floor above, an orchestra was playing for the dansant; and the music came fitfully through the chatter and confusion.
From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by Scott, John Reed
He didn't care to explain to Juliana that it was impossible to get home any earlier from the kind of the dansant that everybody was giving just now.
From Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Leacock, Stephen
