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rigadoon
[ rig-uh-doon ]
noun
- a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
- a piece of music for this dance or in its rhythm.
rigadoon
/ ˌrɪɡəˈduːn; riɡodɔ̃ /
noun
- an old Provençal couple dance, light and graceful, in lively duple time
- a piece of music for or in the rhythm of this dance
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rigadoon1
1685–95; < French rigaudon, perhaps from name Rigaud
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rigadoon1
C17: from French, allegedly from its inventor Rigaud , a dancing master at Marseille
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Example Sentences
The dance itself is nothing; it might as well be called a Rigadoon or a Sailor's Hornpipe, so far as the steps go.
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To build a city he had only to play a rigadoon and a minuet; but the other hero destroyed them by the sound of rams' horns.
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Arm in arm, their sabots clogging, they did a rigadoon down the winding road.
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She would dance you a rigadoon or cut a pigeon's wing for you very respectably.
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And the Doctor looked as if he should like to rigadoon and sashy across as well as the young one he was talkin' about.
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