dansant

American  

[dahn-sahn] / dɑ̃ˈsɑ̃ /

noun

French.

• dansants
  plural

1. thé dansant.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dansants
  plural

Example Sentences

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dansant dansants

The tableau dansant reframes the mural — and ballet, dissolving some of its social hierarchies.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

There were dresses for a thé dansant, dainty and frosted, in a macaron palette.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016

Saigon's Cercle Sportif bubbled with the dansant in the hot evenings.

From Time Magazine Archive

A military string ensemble pumped out the dansant tunes in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace as Master Farceur Noel Coward, 70, was dubbed a knight of the realm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course," he admitted, "we are not at a thé dansant or a cabaret.

From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller

I've been trained to shine at dinner parties, and balls, and thés dansants.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford

The Cercle Sportivo gave a dance at their club in our honor and two tea dansants were held at the Continental Hotel.

From The Log of the Empire State by Geneve L. A. Shaffer

Artificers accustomed to déjeûné dansants came all the way from London to assist, to direct, to create.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

Mrs. M'Catchley had described with much eloquence the Dejeunes dansants of her fashionable friends residing in the elegant suburbs of Wimbledon and Fulham.

From My Novel — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Artificers accustomed to /dejeunes dansants/ came all the way from London to assist, to direct, to create.

From My Novel — Volume 05 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton