| 单词 | death dance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath dance death dance n. (a) = Dance of Death at dance n. 6c; (b) a dance marking a death, or celebrating the death of an enemy; a (ritual) dance performed before someone's death, or to commemorate the dead. ΚΠ 1766 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XLIV. Index Holben, his famous death-dance. 1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague III. cl. 107 Some of them have led the death dance at the execution of English captives. 1822 T. F. Dibdin Aedes Althorpianae 211 It [sc. ‘the Skeleton Page’] was intended to exhibit some specimens of the ancient death-dance border. 1865 F. Parkman Champlain vii, in France & Eng. in N. Amer. 275 The ghostly death-dance of the breakers. 1912 A. E. Crawley in Encycl. Relig. & Ethics V. 69 At the annual death-dance deceased women are personated not by women but by men. 1967 H. S. Gochberg Stage of Dreams i. 22 The infernal death-dance of the circle of cadavers. 2009 D. Starnes & N. Luckham Fiji (ed. 8) 46 In times of war, men performed the cibi (death dance). < as lemmas |
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