But still, I do sometimes take part in a schottische, count.
The band struck up a schottische, and all began to take partners.
Nothing is more graceful than the reel and schottische of the Highlands.
He came in, warm and anxious, just in time to claim Fannie for their schottische.
schottische—a dance in two-quarter measure, something like the polka.
You waltz and two-step and polka and schottische, don't you?
And then Miss Wood passed him brightly again, and was dancing the schottische almost immediately.
The dance was a schottische, and in a moment her yellow braids were fairly standing on end.
The schottische, a kind of modified polka, was “created” by Markowski, who was the proprietor of a famous dancing academy in 1850.
One still danced the polka in those days, and the schottische and the dear old lancers, though the waltz was already the favorite.
round dance resembling a polka, 1849, from German Schottische, from schottische (tanz) "Scottish (dance)," from Schotte "a native of Scotland," from Old High German Scotto, from Late Latin Scottus (see Scot). The pronunciation is French.
