dansant
Americannoun
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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
Saigon's Cercle Sportif bubbled with the dansant in the hot evenings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Do you remember, two years ago, their giving a party for a black man on the day of Julia Mingott's the dansant?
From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith
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