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COUNTRY DANCING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
Synonyms:
contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country-dance; country dancing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("country dancing" is a kind of...):
folk dance; folk dancing (a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "country dancing"):
longways; longways dance (country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other)
square dance; square dancing (American country dancing in which couples form squares)
do-si-do (a square-dance figure; two dancers approach each other and circle back to back before returning to their original places)
promenade (a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle)
sashay (a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps)
swing (a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them)
landler (a moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping)