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Definition of Fan dance
1. Noun. A solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fan Dance
Literary usage of Fan dance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1920)
"Hungarian Dance, Spanish Step, Barn Dances. fan dance. Ring Around a Rosey: Simple
Minuet for Children, ..."
2. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"In the fan dance, all the dancers were provided with a fan of tappa stretched on
a wooden frame. They divided themselves into two parties, which formed into ..."
3. Around the World Through Japan by Walter Del Mar (1904)
"... significance we failed to grasp; then a pantomimic " washerwoman's dance,"
which required no explanation, a fan dance, and the " maple-leaf " dance. ..."
4. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"Then came the dancers of another village, and danced the " fan dance "—the
prettiest one we saw. Instead of clubs they held huge fans, curiously fashioned ..."
5. The Negro Races: A Sociological Study by Jerome Dowd (1914)
"The fan dance to a " rump-a-tump-tump tune-beat of the drum," and singing usually
accompanies the dance.20 The songs are monotonous repetitions of some such ..."
6. Jinrikisha Days in Japan by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1900)
"... the wailing chorus began, and there succeeded a fan- dance, a cherry blossom-dance,
and an autumn-dance, the four brilliant figures posing, gliding, ..."
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