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Definition of Fox-trot
1. Noun. A ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fox-trot
Literary usage of Fox-trot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Training and Breaking of Horses by Merritt Wesley Harper (1918)
"The fox trot. — This gait is simply a slow, rather loosely jointed trot. Some one
has fittingly described it as a "dog trot." The action is somewhat similar ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"Not all members of this breed can be taught to go the running-walk well, and for
that reason it has been decreed that either the fox-trot or the ..."
3. The Women's Health and Aging Study: Health and Social Characteristics of ...edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty (1995)
"YES 1 NO 2 DOR'T DO 3 (EX17) REFUSED -7 DON'T mow -8 EX14. When you (try to)
dance a fox trot, do you get chest pain? YES 1 NO 2 REFUSED -7 DOM'T ..."
4. The Horse by Isaac Phillips Roberts (1917)
"A closer rein is held than with the fox trot, and the pace is faster, ... It is
a more showy gait than the fox trot and gives a horse more of a climbing ..."
5. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1920)
"The running walk is called a slow gait, and there are two other gaits allied to
it, — the slow pace and the fox trot. The name " running walk " defines the ..."
6. The Breeds of Live-stock by Carl Warren Gay (1916)
"Not all members of this breed can be taught to go the running-walk well, and for
that reason it has been decreed that either the fox-trot or the ..."
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