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country dance

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country dance
n
(Performing Arts / Dancing) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets and perform a series of movements, esp facing one another in a line
country dancing  n
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When he felt his case unusually serious, and that he positively must find an opening, he would go on 'Change at a busy time, and walk in and out, in a kind of gloomy country dance figure, among the assembled magnates.
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The experience of Miss Emmerson went no further than the simple evolutions of the country dance, or the deliberate and dignified procession of the minuet.
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Thornbury tried to recall an old country dance which she had seen danced by her father's tenants in Dorsetshire in the old days.
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