dansant
Americannoun
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dansants
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The tableau dansant reframes the mural — and ballet, dissolving some of its social hierarchies.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
There were dresses for a thé dansant, dainty and frosted, in a macaron palette.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
A military string ensemble pumped out the dansant tunes in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace as Master Farceur Noel Coward, 70, was dubbed a knight of the realm.
From Time Magazine Archive
Saigon's Cercle Sportif bubbled with the dansant in the hot evenings.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, therewith, a Déjeûné dansant Mr. Avenel resolved to give.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
Artificers accustomed to déjeûné dansants came all the way from London to assist, to direct, to create.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
Artificers accustomed to déjeûnés dansants came all the way from London to assist, to direct, to create.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
Mrs. M'Catchley had described with much eloquence the Déjeûnés dansants of her fashionable friends residing in the elegant suburbs of Wimbledon and Fulham.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
Artificers accustomed to /dejeunes dansants/ came all the way from London to assist, to direct, to create.
From My Novel — Volume 05 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
This Gédéon Goré, of the Nice dansants, did not even remotely resemble Gideon Gory of Winnebago, Wisconsin.
From Gigolo by Edna Ferber
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