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Definition of Sword dance
1. Noun. Any of various dances by men who step nimbly over swords or flourish them in the air.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sword Dance
Literary usage of Sword dance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... it should l>e stated, that after the fifth verse other characters are generally
introduced in a similar manner, and then the sword-dance takes place, ..."
2. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"A sword-dance is not in itself, a drama, for drama is only reached when ...
We have, furthermore, no evidence that the sword-dance ever took on comic ..."
3. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"The Sword-dance, circling! O Fire! O Fire! 0 Steell O Steel! . . . Sing the
Slaughter-lover blue Broad and true! Sing the Slaughter-lover blue! ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"In some of the remote Shetland islands, the sword-dance is also still practised.
... The author of the history of Whitby mentions the sword- dance, ..."
5. The Mediaeval Stage by Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1903)
"CHAPTER IX THE SWORD-DANCE [Bibliographical Note.—The books mentioned in the ...
The sword-dance has been the subject of two elaborate studies : K. ..."
6. The Mediaeval Stage by Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1903)
"CHAPTER IX THE SWORD-DANCE [Bibliographical Note. — The books mentioned in the
... The sword-dance has been the subject of two elaborate studies : K. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... it should l>e stated, that after the fifth verse other characters are generally
introduced in a similar manner, and then the sword-dance takes place, ..."
8. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"A sword-dance is not in itself, a drama, for drama is only reached when ...
We have, furthermore, no evidence that the sword-dance ever took on comic ..."
9. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"The Sword-dance, circling! O Fire! O Fire! 0 Steell O Steel! . . . Sing the
Slaughter-lover blue Broad and true! Sing the Slaughter-lover blue! ..."
10. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"In some of the remote Shetland islands, the sword-dance is also still practised.
... The author of the history of Whitby mentions the sword- dance, ..."
11. The Mediaeval Stage by Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1903)
"CHAPTER IX THE SWORD-DANCE [Bibliographical Note.—The books mentioned in the ...
The sword-dance has been the subject of two elaborate studies : K. ..."
12. The Mediaeval Stage by Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1903)
"CHAPTER IX THE SWORD-DANCE [Bibliographical Note. — The books mentioned in the
... The sword-dance has been the subject of two elaborate studies : K. ..."
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