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Definition of Morris dancing
1. Noun. Any of various English folk dances performed by dancers in costume.
Definition of Morris dancing
1. Noun. The performance of a morris dance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morris Dancing
Literary usage of Morris dancing
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)
"Stow says the villagers used to set up May-poles, and spend the day in archery,
morris-dancing, and other amusements. Evil May-day (1517), when the London ..."
2. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1864)
"MORRIS-DANCING. HIS was one of the oldest of English pastimes, and we do not see
why it might not be imitated by boys and girls of the present day. ..."
3. Lord Beaconsfield and Other Tory Memories by Thomas Edward Kebbel (1907)
"... Mastiffs—A Tenants' Ball—morris dancing— Making Converts—A Compliment from
Lord Strathnairn. THERE can be no doubt in any well-regulated mind that one ..."
4. Tomorrow's Politics: The Third Way and Beyond by Ian Christie, Ian Hargreaves (1998)
"... A STEP BEYOND morris dancing: THE THIRD SECTOR REVIVAL Ian Hargreaves When
Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979, she had a strong instinctive ..."
5. Household Tales with Other Traditional Remains: Collection in the Counties by Sidney Oldall Addy (1895)
"At Curbar, in Derbyshire, it is said that morris dancing is really fairy ...
A man said to me that morris dancing had been " taken away from the fairies. ..."
6. Shropshire Folk-lore: A Sheaf of Gleanings by Georgina Frederica Jackson, Charlotte Sophia Burne (1883)
"... was not an accompaniment of the morris-dance as performed in that district,
which may be considered the chief centre of morris-dancing in Shropshire. ..."
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