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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