A ring-dance with accompaniment of song; ? a ring of men or women holding hands and moving round in dancing step. archaic.

an event arranged by a bawd or pimp at which attendees dance with prostitutes in an erotic manner; an orgy.

An entertainment consisting of music and dancing, esp. a masked ball. Now historical.

An entertainment consisting of music, dancing, and sometimes gambling; cf. redoubt, n. 3a.

a ball held in connection with a race meeting.

(formerly) a subscription ball held in the county town and attended by the county gentry; (now) a ball held for young farmers in a county.

a ball at which formal dress is worn.

Dance. In country dancing: a movement resembling a march made by couples in formation.

A party or soirée for waltzing. Obsolete.

a ball given by members of a hunt.

some type of dance.

a social gathering for the purpose of dancing the polka.

attributive and in other combinations, as jigging-party n. dialect a dancing-party. jigging-machine n. a machine for jigging (usually in sense 5 of…

Originally U.S. A ball or formal dance at a school or college, typically held for the members of a single (typically senior) class near the end of…

Applied allusively to a cinder-woman, scullery-maid, etc.; also, a neglected or despised member, partner, or the like. Also attributive. Also, (more…

a formal social event in which guests have dinner, which is then followed by dancing, typically held in the evening at hotels, social clubs, etc.

a ball at which all the ladies are dressed in white.

A formal ball, such as a coming-out dance. U.S.

A dance at which the services of a dance partner, esp. a woman (see taxi dancer, n.), may be hired.

(With initial capital.) An uproarious kind of dance. Also Stampede Dance (in quot. 1950, a dancing-party).

U.S. colloquial. Originally: a go-go nightclub, discotheque, etc. (see sense A. 1a) (now disused). In later use: (chiefly in and near Washington…