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court dance

American  

noun

  1. a dignified dance for performance at a court.


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The company will present a wealth of traditional works, including Kete, an elegant court dance from the Eastern and Ashanti regions instilled with reverence and dignity.

From New York Times May 25, 2023

McCormick, 35, grew up in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he studied ballet and baroque court dance, taking private lessons from Regine Astier, a renowned authority on the dances of 17th-century France.

From Washington Post Dec. 20, 2018

Appraising an abstract expressionist work that’s a snarl of snaking lines, Lionel steps forward and backward, forward and backward, as if engaged in a court dance.

From Washington Post May 17, 2016

They gave him a novel idea: Why not apply the technique of the classic Western ballet to the spirit and music of Bugaku, the Japanese court dance?

From Time Magazine Archive

I have seen some of them, after being sentenced by the court, dance for hours, calling out continuously, "Did I not tell you all, the biggest rogues get off the best?"

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various

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