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ˈcushion-dance
A round dance, formerly danced at weddings, in which the women and men alternately knelt on a cushion to be kissed.
1607Heywood Woman kilde Wks. 1874 II. 97, I that haue ere now deseru'd a cushion, call for the cushion dance. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. ii. vi. iv. 1698The Dancing Master 7 Joan Sanderson or the Cushion Dance, an old Round Dance. [Described in full.] 1767W. Hanbury Charities Ch. Langton 86 The Cushion Dance..seemed to be his greatest favourite. 1870Brough Marston Lynch ii. 6 There was to be a mistletoe, and the cushion-dance. |