hat dance

American  

noun

1. a Mexican folk dance in which the man places his sombrero on the ground as an offer of love and the woman dances on the hat's brim and then places the hat on her head to indicate her acceptance of him.

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Example Sentences

His collection soon expanded after trips to Mexico, a destination for folk-art miniatures including fleas in traditional dress performing a hat dance.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Safety Deontay Anderson’s interpretation of the hat dance, though, made those delicious cakes look like ordinary, inedible hats.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2016

Most distinctive to the monastery is the black hat dance in which the monks narrate the legend of how a religious community escaped a tyrant's persecution.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2010

It suggests presenting folklore through Chinese tales; or, for music class, the Mexican hat dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

I became Alice Evans’s regular bathroom partner—we worked out a secret signal so that she wouldn’t have to do the Mexican hat dance anymore.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead