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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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
That has involved them staying in a new housing development and organising creative activities for the neighbours to encourage a community spirit, including painting workshops, country dancing and ice sculpture.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2019
All, however, was not country dancing: the young man, 'too old and too young to be in love,' was to make his way as a wit.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Philip Wharton
