lancers
Americannoun
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a set of quadrilles danced in sequence.
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music for such a set of dances.
noun
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a quadrille for eight or sixteen couples
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a piece of music composed for this dance
Etymology
Origin of lancers
First recorded in 1860–65; plural of lancer
Example Sentences
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Once a company of lancers appeared, but they turned southward.
From Literature
When President Xi Jinping of China arrived in India a year ago for a visit, he was welcomed at each stop by gleaming military honor guards, including a row of turbaned cavalry lancers on horseback.
From New York Times
Economic sanctions are to modern statecraft what mounted lancers were to war in the trenches: magnificent but useless.
From The Guardian
Behind followed nine tenths of their horse; knights, lancers, freeriders, and mounted bowmen. ^ took hours for them all to cross.
From Literature
Is it merely soft nothings that the Christ Church undergraduate is whispering to that young lady from Somerville Hall, as they 'sit out' the lancers in the romantic light of several hundred Chinese lanterns?
From Project Gutenberg
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