ring dance

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noun

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Nearby words

ring buoy, ring chromosome, ring circuit, ring compound, ring cycle, ring dance, ring down the curtain on, ring false, ring finger, ring flash, ring gage

Origin of ring dance

First recorded in 1590–1600

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for ring dance

A ring-dance imitation-play, the metrical portion of which is not without a little melody.
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales|David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
The word coraula is still used to denote the ring-dance in Switzerland; also coreihi, to leap (choreare), Rochholz, p. 371.
Games and Songs of American Children|Various
Roundel, rown′del, n. anything of a round form or figure: a circle: a ring-dance, a rondel.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various