2. Verb. (third-person singular of dance) ¹
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Definition of Dances
1. dance [v] - See also: dance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dances
Literary usage of Dances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The reference is to the complicated dances of former times, when all followed
the leader. ... A Roman pantomimic performance resembling the dances of our ..."
2. Shakespeare in Music: A Collation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the by Louis Charles Elson (1901)
"The dances of Shakespeare — Many dances Sung — The Dump — Other dances. ...
Most of the old dances had their origin in Spain, where the Moors introduced the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"The introduction into modern fashion of the so-called round dances has quickened the
... In no wise better, as has been shown above, were scenic dances; ..."
4. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"The most prominent place among modern dances with musical setting is assigned to
the Waltz, ... JOHANN STRAUSS, a few Waltzes and other dances (Schirmer ed. ..."
5. The Antique Greek Dance, After Sculptured and Painted Figures by Maurice Emmanuel (1916)
"Absence of perspective from the representations of choral dances, consequences.
... Mimetic dances and mimetic scenes.—398. Presence at the Bacchanal of ..."
6. The Beginnings of Art by Ernst Grosse (1897)
"The dances of hunting peoples can be divided, according to their character, into
two groups— mimetic and gymnastic dances. The mimetic dances (•(insist of ..."
7. Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein (1906)
"CHAPTER VI RHYMES AND COUNTRY dances MANY true nursery rhymes go back to traditional
dancing and singing games which are now relegated to the playground, ..."
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