do-si-do

do-si-do  (ds-d)

n. pl. do-si-dos

1. A movement in square dancing in which two dancers approach each other and circle back to back, then return to their original positions.

2. The call given to signal such a movement.

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[Alteration of French dos à dos, back to back : dos, back (from Old French; see dossier) + à, to; see black-a-vised.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

do-si-do - a square-dance figure; two dancers approach each other and circle back to back before returning to their original places contra danse, contradance, contredanse, country dancing, country-dance - a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line square dance, square dancing - American country dancing in which couples form squares