danse macabre
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of danse macabre
From French
Example Sentences
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In contrast to the danse macabre sequences at the deathbed, Jill overhears the “celebratory sound” of a neighbor’s back yard evening wedding by torchlight.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
With its ingenious recastings of Russian Orthodox chants and the Catholic “Dies Irae,” this can be a grand, mesmerizingly intense score, a danse macabre written as World War II was underway.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022
His body of work is a long danse macabre between fiction and reality.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2021
Animal and worker are locked in a danse macabre, together physically degenerating to produce ever more marginal profit.
From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2020
And then he lay there as the danse macabre of the demons of fear that lived in his body began in earnest.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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