单词 | monkey dance |
释义 | monkey dancen. Any of various tribal or folk dances involving imitation of monkeys, spec. the Balinese kecak dance, in which seated singers play the part of monkey soldiers. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > Malaysia and Indonesia monkey dance1785 ronggeng1855 joget1895 legong1926 ketjak1937 trance dancing1956 1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. Contents p. xxviii Monkey-dance. 1821 G. Croly Paris in 1815 ii. xxii, in Poet. Wks. (1830) I. 18 The jostling mob dance, laugh, sing, shout the rhyme... The dungeon'd murderer..Uplist'ning hears the din, the monkey-dance. 1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 40 Pl. 15 (caption) Suk; monkey dance. 1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby ix. 176 The Monkey Dance or Ketchak Ceremonies impressed me more than all other dances and dramas... A Ketchak was held solely for our entertainment. 1956 Monumenta Nipponica 12 19 The so-called sarugaku, the Monkey-dance..accompanied by instruments and song. 1992 Condé Nast Traveler June 141/1 Village Y has a temple ceremony and is performing the kecak, or monkey dance. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1785 |
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