dansant

American  

[dahn-sahn] / dɑ̃ˈsɑ̃ /

noun

French.

PLURAL

dansants

1. thé dansant.

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Example Sentences

The tableau dansant reframes the mural — and ballet, dissolving some of its social hierarchies.

From New York Times

Over two days, nonstop jamming on the roof and in the cozy bar of the barge, the Anako, was interspersed with performances, workshops, a “bal dansant” and a lecture on the roots of old time music as sunshine warmed a crowd armed with banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars — and, yes, spoons — singing about lazy bones, weary bones and an inability to “buy my blues away.”

From New York Times

There were dresses for a thé dansant, dainty and frosted, in a macaron palette.

From The New Yorker

She provided the texts for a series of her brother’s vocal and choral works starting in the 1980s, including a surreally retro setting of her three-poem sequence “A History of the Thé Dansant,” inspired by photographs of their parents from the 1920s.

From New York Times

Je ne vous repr�senterai point David dansant devant l'arche....

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