palais gliden.
/ˌpaleɪ ˈɡlʌɪd/, /ˌpalɪ ˈɡlʌɪd/, U.S. /pælˈeɪ ˈɡlaɪd/ A ballroom dance with high kicks and gliding steps performed by large groups linking arms in a row. Also figurative.
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1936 Dancing Times Nov. 166/1 The ‘Palais Glide’ has a merit of simplicity... It is claimed that it originated some five or six years ago in a small garrison town in Yorkshire.
1938 A. Moore Ballroom Dancing (ed. 2) vii. 251 The Palais Glide can hardly be termed a dance; it is reminiscent of the Gallop which has been a feature of Hunt Balls for many years... It can be danced to any Foxtrot tune..and it is played at a tempo of about 30 bars a minute.
1974 R. Ingham Yoris xvii. 54 Do you remember the Palais Glide?.. Lovely dance.
1992 Artist (BNC) Dec. 38 We enter Venice in the early morning and the light does a graceful palais glide along the sea, over the marsh lands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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