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rain dance

noun

  1. (especially among American Indians) a ritualistic dance performed to bring rain.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rain dance1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

This week, the broadcast networks once again presented their annual rain dance known as upfront presentations.

My pulse was jumping lumpily, my lungs refusing to work right, my head doing a Hopi rain dance.

If he wishes for sun or wind or rain, "he summons his tribe, and dances a sun dance or a wind dance or a rain dance."

With spectacular ceremonial and regalia the Indians staged their "rain dance."

He wished he'd acted more grown up that night they watched the rain dance at the pueblo.

One of the most usual of their dances, managed something like our ballets, is called the Rain-dance.

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