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单词 cushion-dance
释义

cushion-dancen.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcushion-dance.
A round dance, formerly danced at weddings, in which the women and men alternately knelt on a cushion to be kissed.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > round dance > [noun] > specific
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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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