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 French contredanse was borrowed from the English ‘country-dance’.
From English Past and Present by Abram Smythe Palmer
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
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
