NOUN | act | contradance, country-dance, country dancing, contredanse, contra danse | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
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VERB | motion | contradance, country-dance, contredanse, contra danse | perform a contradance |
Meaning | A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line. | |
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Synonyms | country-dance, country dancing, contredanse, contra danse | |
Narrower | do-si-do | A square-dance figure |
landler | A moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time | |
longways, longways dance | country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other | |
promenade | A square dance figure | |
sashay | A square dance figure | |
square dance, square dancing | American country dancing in which couples form squares | |
swing | A square dance figure | |
Broader | folk dancing, folk dance | A style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts) |
Spanish | contra danse, contradanza | |
Catalan | contradansa, contra danse |
Meaning | Perform a contradance. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Model | Sam and Sue contradance | |
Synonyms | country-dance, contredanse, contra danse | |
Broader | dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe | Move in a pattern |
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