Virginia reel

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Virginia reel

An American country-dance in which couples perform various steps together to the instructions of a caller.

Virginia reel

1. (Performing Arts / Dancing) an American country dance

2. (Music, other) music written for or in the manner of this dance

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Virginia reel - an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines

reel

longways, longways dance - country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other

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dance longways longways dance reel reel off Reeler			A minute later she was whirled away in his arms to the dancing-floor, where, along with the other three women and their partners, a rollicking Virginia reel was soon in progress. Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context The musicians hurried to their instruments, the dancers-some already half-muffled for departure-fell into line down each side of the room, the older spectators slipped back to their chairs, and the lively young man, after diving about here and there in the throng, drew forth a girl who had already wound a cherry-coloured "fascinator" about her head, and, leading her up to the end of the floor, whirled her down its length to the bounding tune of a Virginia reel. Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context			virgin's bower virgin's-bower virginal Virginal generation virginal membrane Virginhood Virginia Virginia Algonquian Virginia Beach Virginia bluebell Virginia chain fern Virginia cowslip Virginia creeper Virginia crownbeard Virginia deer Virginia fence Virginia ham Virginia Katherine McMath Virginia mallow Virginia McMath Virginia nightingale Virginia oyster Virginia pine Virginia quail Virginia rail Virginia reel Virginia serpentaria Virginia serpentary Virginia silk Virginia snakeroot Virginia spring beauty Virginia stock Virginia strawberry Virginia thimbleweed Virginia tobacco Virginia Wade Virginia waterleaf Virginia Woolf virginiamycin Virginian Virginian stock Virginian stonecrop Virginian sumac Virginian witch hazel virginity virginium Virgo virgo intacta Virgo the Virgin Virgoan Virgouleuse			Virginia Public Building Safety Regulations Virginia Public Guardian and Conservator Program Virginia Public Health Association Virginia Public Inquiry Center Virginia Public Procurement Act Virginia Public Records Act Virginia Public Safety Foundation Virginia Public Schools Authority Virginia Public Service Week Virginia quail Virginia Quality Assurance Screening Virginia Quarter Horse Association Virginia Quarterly Review Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 Virginia Radiology Associates v. Culpeper Memorial Hospital Virginia rail Virginia rail fence Virginia Railway Express Virginia Range Wildlife Protection Association Virginia raspberry Virginia Ready-Mixed Concrete Association Virginia Real Estate and Development Virginia Recreation and Park Society Virginia Recycling Association Virginia reel Virginia reels Virginia Region Pony Club Virginia Regional Ballet Virginia Regional Medical Center Virginia Regional Minority Supplier Development Council Virginia Regional Transportation Association Virginia Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind Virginia Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Vision Impaired Virginia Renaissance Faire Virginia Rescue Training Center, Inc. Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission Virginia Research Center for Archaeology Virginia Resolution Virginia Resolutions Virginia Resolutions of 1798 Virginia Resort Development Association Virginia Retail Merchants Association Virginia Retirement System Virginia Rider Training Program Virginia Riley Designer Accessories Virginia Road and Transportation Builders Association Virginia Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee Virginia Romance Writers

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