ring dance
noun
Origin of ring dance
1First recorded in 1590–1600
Words Nearby ring dance
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How to use ring dance in a sentence
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)A much more barbaric performance than the stately and solemn movement of the ring dance, or kolo.
The Land of the Black Mountain | Reginald WyonThe next two lines are then sung, and the two children in the ring dance round and kiss.
My Book of Indoor Games | Clarence SquaremanThe 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 | VariousRoundel, rown′del, n. anything of a round form or figure: a circle: a ring-dance, a rondel.
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