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LONGWAYS DANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other
Synonyms:
longways; longways dance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("longways dance" is a kind of...):
contra danse; contradance; contredanse; country-dance; country dancing (a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longways dance"):
reel; Virginia reel (an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines)
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