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one-step, n.|ˈwʌnstɛp|
Also one step.
[f. one numeral a. + step n.]
A ballroom dance in quick time, in which the steps resemble simple walking. Hence as v. intr., to dance the one-step.
1911Home Chat 7 Oct. 108/1 Camilla is just mad about the ‘One-step’. 1914V. Castle Mod. Dancing 44 Simply walk as softly and smoothly as possible, taking a step to every count of the music. This is the One Step, and this is all there is to it. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iv. 172, I caught him..in the deserted library later, while the rest was one-stepping in the..ballroom. 1921H. S. Walpole Young Enchanted iii. i. 230 Bunny says I one-step better than anyone he's ever known. 1924[see hesitation 3]. 1938B. Schönberg tr. Sachs' World Hist. of Dance vii. 445 We have shortly after 1900 the one-step or turkey trot. 1956G. P. Kurath in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 106/1 The one-step or turkey-trot..was little more than a smooth walk. 1969F. Rust Dance in Society x. 84 After the one-step came the fishwalk and the horsetrot—of ephemeral interest only. |