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Definition of Ring dance
1. Noun. A folk dance; dancers form a circle.
Generic synonyms: Folk Dance, Folk Dancing
Specialized synonyms: Schottische
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring Dance
Literary usage of Ring dance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"RING-DANCE of three figures in pointed caps who face inwards, and encircle a
flute-player. These ring-dances, performed around a musician or a sacred tree, ..."
2. Dancing, Ancient and Modern by Ethel Lucy Urlin (1912)
"In that ring dance all the Blessed, In that ring dance all the Angels. Go they
all before the Bridegroom, Dancing ail of them for love. ..."
3. Fra Angelico by Robert Langton Douglas (1902)
"In that ring dance all the Blessed, In that ring dance all the angels. Go they
all before the Bridegroom, Dancing all of them for love. ..."
4. Fra Angelico by Robert Langton Douglas (1902)
"In that ring dance all the Blessed, In that ring dance all the angels. Go they
all before the Bridegroom, Dancing all of them for love. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1903)
"form, as in a "ring-dance"' group from Dali in the Cypriote Room of the Egyptian and
... It is possible that this group is a combination of the " ring-dance ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1901)
"Semitic worship of the seventh and sixth centuries BC) represent a terra-cotta
vessel (probably a brazier or censer), in shape of a ring-dance, and a Sacred ..."
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