country-dance
noun
a dance of rural English origin in which the dancers form circles or squares or in which they face each other in two rows.
country dancing
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a word derived from
country dance.
Example Sentences
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From the Gay Gordons to The Dashing White Sergeant, the new guidelines hope to send out the message that Scottish country dancing is for everyone.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2023
Tammie Frank also offered some details about what happened where they were staying during the country dancing event — the hotel where Jason David Frank died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
And he recalled that at a Balmoral ball with “vigorous” Scottish country dancing, the queen — then 93 — was “the first person up on the dance floor.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
Maybe Mahler’s symphonies — music of extremes, from sublime tenderness to bitter anguish, from childlike evocations of country dancing to harrowing trips into darkness — are proving just a tad over the top.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
We had two fiddles, & I had the honor to open the diversion of the evening in a minuet with miss Soley.—Here follows a list of the company as we form'd for country dancing.
From Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Winslow, Anna Green
