| 单词 | cushion-dance | 
| 释义 | cushion-dancen.  A round dance, formerly danced at weddings, in which the women and men alternately knelt on a cushion to be kissed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > round dance > 			[noun]		 > specific rayc1450 Sellenger's round1567 miller's round1579 roundelay1589 cushion-dance1607 prinkum-prankuma1635 roundabout1766 pillow dance1811 batuque1820 walkround1861 hora1878 kissing dance1899 maxixe1909 garba1920 raas garba1935 1607    T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. B2  				I, that haue ere now deserued a Cushion, call for the cushion dance. 1621    R. Burton Anat. Melancholy  ii. ii. vi. iv. 377  				A friend of his reprehended him for dancing beside his dignity (belike at some cushen dance). 1698    The Dancing Master 7  				Joan Sanderson or the Cushion Dance, an old Round Dance. [Described in full.] 1767    W. Hanbury Hist. Rise Charitable Found. Church-Langton 86  				The Cushion Dance..seemed to be his greatest favourite. 1860    R. B. Brough Marston Lynch ii. 6  				There was to be a mistletoe, and the cushion-dance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < | 
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