barn dance
a social gathering, originally held in a barn, and including square dances, round dances, and hoedown music.
any party featuring country dances, dress, music, etc.
Origin of barn dance
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How to use barn dance in a sentence
The band was playing, slowly, as is the dancing-fashion of the North, that barn dance; and almost every girl was in white.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsAre you clean daffy, doin' a barn dance around that rusty capstan, makin' a noise fit to frighten the fish?
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. KyneIt was at a country barn dance during these few days that he met Moyra Dolan.
The Wind Bloweth | Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne"And women pet them; they'd prefer a fool who can pot rabbits and do a barn-dance to Homer himself," growled Yate.
Love's Usuries | Louis CreswickeIt was the day that Annixter had chosen for his barn-dance and, in consequence, Quien Sabe was in fete and work suspended.
The Octopus | Frank Norris
British Dictionary definitions for barn dance
British a progressive round country dance
US and Canadian a party with hoedown music and square-dancing
a party featuring country dancing
a disco or party held in a barn
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