dansant
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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
She had even said point-blank to Mr. Avenel, "Why don't you give a Déjeûné dansant?"
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various
The Cercle Sportivo gave a dance at their club in our honor and two tea dansants were held at the Continental Hotel.
From The Log of the Empire State by Shaffer, Geneve L. A.
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
This Gédéon Goré, of the Nice dansants, did not even remotely resemble Gideon Gory of Winnebago, Wisconsin.
From Gigolo by Ferber, Edna
Artificers accustomed to dejeunes dansants came all the way from London to assist, to direct, to create.
From My Novel — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Mrs. M'Catchley had described with much eloquence the /Dejeunes dansants/ of her fashionable friends residing in the elegant suburbs of Wimbledon and Fulham.
From My Novel — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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