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Definition of Gypsy dancing
1. Noun. A style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gypsy Dancing
Literary usage of Gypsy dancing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hungarian Celebrities by Walter James Wyatt (1871)
"... are the only countries in which gypsy dancing can now be found. ...
gypsy dancing-girl, as the elaborate descriptions given by most of our English ..."
2. The Spell of Spain by Keith Clark (1914)
"... have seen gypsy dancing done a la st in Granada, don't you understand bet- )-day
what dancing means, what it has It?" Imost," I admitted, feeling the ..."
3. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Numerous Incantations by Charles Godfrey Leland (1891)
"... and is not the whole a picture of the wildest gypsy dancing wherever found?
Or it would apply to the Hindoo debauches, as still celebrated in honour of ..."
4. Travels in Spain by Philip Sanford Marden (1910)
"gypsy dancing, however, unquestionably remains one of the characteristic sights
of Granada, and commands a very considerable revenue from the curious. ..."
5. The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Richard Francis Burton, William Henry Wilkins (1898)
"... had retained to some extent the Hindu costume, the Pagri (head-cloth) and the
Dhoti (waist-cloth). So in Moscow I have seen the gypsy dancing-girls ..."
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