dance·hall

(dăns′hôl′)

1. or dance hall A building or part of a building with facilities for dancing.

2. A style of reggae music that incorporates hip-hop and rhythm and blues elements. Also called ragga.

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Noun

dance hall - large room used mainly for dancing

ballroom, dance palace

discotheque, disco - a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music

room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"

Translations

dancing

sala da ballo dancing festa da ballo locale da ballo

dance hall

n → dancing m inv, sala da ballo

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He sat in a dance hall with Jurgis and Halloran until one or two in the morning, exchanging experiences.

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With his fist he broke a large mirror in the wash room of a hotel and later went about smashing windows and breaking chairs in dance halls for the joy of hearing the glass rattle on the floor and seeing the terror in the eyes of clerks who had come from Sandusky to spend the evening at the resort with their sweethearts.

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He said that presenting most genres of dance hall music from the 50s to the present each night would also feature a very special guest, virtuoso musician or singer and a DJ.

Live music tour to help village halls

One would catch the train from Cardiff to Penarth and then have a bottle of Carlsberg lager in the station or Esplanade before heading to the dance hall.

Memories of dancing night away at halls - and finding wife-to-be

Jamaican dance hall singer, Sean Paul, has sent a shout out to Nigerian superstar, Davido on his recent music achievement.

Sean Paul praises Davido

* Dancing at the Corner, 7 p.m., Corner Dance Hall, 200 Franklin St., Whittington.

* Family story time, 10 a.m., Benton Public Library, 502 S. Main St

Clearwater, FL, December 28, 2017 --(PR.com)-- On the 21st of December, Savoy South Dance Hall hosted the monthly Swing Dance for Charity.

Charity Swing Dance Helps Create "Miracles" for At-Risk Youth

DANCE HALL MEMORIES Date: Thursday 6th October 2016 Time: 2.00pm-4.00pm Venue: ISLAND Hall, Lisburn Put on your dancing shoes and join us for an afternoon of sociable dancing.

LISBURN & CASTLEREAGH

He had been in Liverpool for the Grand National in April and then went to the Grafton Rooms, which was a popular dance hall, where we met.

I'm searching for my Scots Grand National lover so he can meet his long-lost son; Mother desperate to find her son's Glaswegian father after one-night stand 32 years ago

The West End in Suffolk Street opened in 1925 as a dance hall and cinema, which boasted a superb Wurlitzer organ, but its doors finally closed in March 1965.

Dance the night away; Nostalgia AS BRUM'S ICONIC TOWER BALLROOM LOSES ITS LICENCE, WE LOOK BACK AT THE CITY'S LONG-LOST DANCE HALLS..

Th e stills here come from birthday legend Macdonald Sport our first clip of film which was shot in a Newcastle dance hall in the early 1960s.

These shots were filmed back in 1963, but where?