grand chain

British  

noun

1. a figure in formation dances, such as the lancers and Scottish reels, in which couples split up and move around in a circle in opposite directions, passing all other dancers until reaching their original partners

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grand chain

It was at its best, perhaps, as a nocturne pricked out by a swarm of electric torches, going and coming along the duck-boards in a grand chain of sparks and flashes.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

But suppose the genera themselves are artificial, only links in a grand chain which Nature has forged slowly, patiently, with many a break and many a failure, in the course of ages?

From About Orchids A Chat by Frederick Boyle

They were links in a grand chain of commercial connection.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various

Isn't that better than a grand chain through a lot of shingle-shangled cottages in the suburbs?

From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller

They danced first a waltz, then a polka, then a quadrille with a grand chain which Captain Polyansky led through all the rooms, then a waltz again.

From The Party by Constance Garnett

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