folk dance
noun
a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people.
folk dancer
-
a word derived from
folk dance.
Example Sentences
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The concert is a display of energy and nutty inventiveness, with Madonna costumed as everything from baton-twirler to folk dancer.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2012
Where the one leaps high, the other stamps down, like the folk dancer he was as a teenager.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nikita himself genially traded stag jokes with French influentials, beamingly invited a handsome girl folk dancer to visit him in Moscow, and clutched to his bosom everything from lambs to schoolchildren.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among her first specimens, the Chicago-born folk dancer imported from the U.S. an innocuous reptile quartet consisting of an emerald-green tree boa, a king snake, an African ball python and a bull snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
I got it as an appreciation for the essay from my son, a former water-polo player who is now a marathon runner and a folk dancer.
From Baron Pál Podmaniczky and the Norwegian Bible by Martinovitsné Kutas Ilona
