cordaxn.
/ˈkɔːdaks/ An indecent or extravagant dance of the Old Greek Comedy.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > erotic dancing > [noun]
cordax1531
ballum rancum1680
rankum1693
cancan1848
fan dance1879
belly dance1883
danse du ventre1893
hootchy-kootchy1893
coochie-coochie1894
coochie1895
cooch1910
bump and grind1938
belly dancing1949
twerk1996
1531 T. Elyot Gouernour i. xx. sig. kviiiv Dissolute motions, and wanton countenaunces, in that whiche was called Cordax.
1812 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds With the obscene device of an old hag Dancing the drunken cordax in her cups.
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. xxix (note) The cordax or dance of comedy.
1847 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art 426 Silenus as a cordax-dancer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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