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dance card
noun
- a card listing, in order, the names of the partners with whom a woman has agreed to dance at a formal ball or party.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dance card1
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Example Sentences
The Hoover Library has a dance card from 1895 showing that young Herbert signed up to do the two-step with future first lady Lou Hoover, but he disliked dancing, and the couple gave it up after they got married.
Then, handing me back my iPad, he said nonchalantly in a really good mock-English accent, “Sorry, chap, my dance card is full.”
Her dancing had called forth the admiration of everybody, and the young men crowded about, begging to see her dance-card.
The program or dance-card of public balls and college class dances, has undeniable advantages.
“She had her dance card full and was splitting her waltzes,” supplied Mary, who was just back from an afternoon at Winsted.
"Please don't," begged Belle suddenly, gripping her dance card tightly.
New Yorkers are sensible, if only for this reason, for having banished the dance card.
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