csardasn.
/ˈtʃɑːdɑːʃ//ˈzɑːdəs/ A Hungarian national dance.
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1860 Players 1 114 Having made herself thoroughly mistress of the ‘Czardas’, the national dance of Hungary.
1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda vi They ended their dances with the Hungarian czardas.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 217 The bewildering postures and maddening antics of the Csárdás.
1888 E. Gerard Land beyond Forest II. 245 Whenever the csardas comes to an end there is a violent clapping of hands to make the music resume.
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 198/1 Czardas, a Hungarian dance, usually consisting of a slow, pathetic introduction called lassu, and a rapid and wild dance called friss or friska. F. Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 is a well-known example.
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 343/2 The Czardas..is said to be a 19th-century revival of the old verbunko.
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