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▪ I. valse, n.|vɔːls|
Also 8 volse.
[a. F. valse (= Sp. vals, Pg. valsa, It. valzer), ad. G. walzer waltz.]
A round dance in triple time, a waltz; the music for this. Also attrib.
1796Times 19 Feb. in Ashton Old Times (1885) 321 The young Ladies are particularly favourable to a German Dance, called the Volse. 1880Grove's Dict. Mus. I. 350/1 [Chopin's] first..compositions were dances: Polonaises, Mazurkas, and Valses. 1894E. Scott Dancing 168 The Versa, a new Valse Dance.
▪ II. valse, v.|vɔːls|
[f. prec., or ad. F. valser (= Sp. and Pg. valsar).]
intr. To dance the valse or waltz; to waltz.
1870H. Smart Race for Wife i, I am quite willing to look on at your valsing for another hour. 1876The World V. No. 114. 19 With whom Maud fancies herself in love because he valses so divinely.
Hence ˈvalser, ˈvalsing vbl. n. (also transf.)
1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 102 The gnats are dancing round and round..I wonder that that incessant valsing does not make them giddy.
▪ III. valse
southern ME. var. false a. and v. |