| 释义 |
ˈbarn dance orig. U.S.
[barn n.]
A dance danced in a barn; applied spec. to a kind of schottische in which the partners advance side by side for a few steps and then dance a waltz or schottische step.
1892Daily News 28 Sept. 5/5 The now inevitable barn dance figured once on the programme. 1895L. Grove et al. Dancing 424 ‘Barn dance’ is an American designation; but as many other dances take place in barns out West, it is difficult to see why the title is specially applied to this Scotch lilt and schottische hops. 1900C. C. Munn Uncle Terry 20 If it was a barn dance she was always there and never lacked partners.
allusively.1898Kipling Fleet in Being 7 We of the light horse did barn-dances about the windy floors. |