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Definition of Danse du ventre
1. Noun. A Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen.
Generic synonyms: Choreography, Stage Dancing
Derivative terms: Belly Dance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Danse Du Ventre
Literary usage of Danse du ventre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Constantinople, Old and New by Harrison Griswold Dwight (1915)
"While the basis of it is the Arab danse du ventre, it is a danse du ventre
chastened by the cult of the toe. What there may be of grossness about it is ..."
2. Modern Dancing and Dancers by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1912)
"And so acute an observer as Lady Duff Gordon found in the danse du ventre an
intensity that gave it a kind of dignity. " I could not call it voluptuous," ..."
3. The Sexual question: A Scientific, Psychological, Hygenic and Sociological Study by Auguste Forel (1908)
"I have seen at the Paris Exposition an Arab woman perform the erotic dance called
the "danse du ventre," in which the various movements of coitus are ..."
4. The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by Edward Alexander Powell (1912)
"As a matter of fact, the danse du ventre, as seen in the questionable resorts of
our own country, has about as much in common with the real ..."
5. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1901)
"It is the physiological performance called the danse du ventre translated into
psychological terms. Power? Yes, great power of a certain sort; rhetorical, ..."
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