dance of death
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dance of death

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death Also called (French) danse macabre

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dance of death - a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave

danse macabre

ceremonial dance, ritual dance, ritual dancing - a dance that is part of a religious ritual

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dance of death (redirected from skeleton dance)

dance of death
(redirected from skeleton dance)