单词 | pipe dance |
释义 | pipe dancen. 1. North American. A North American Indian ceremonial dance involving or relating to a peace pipe or calumet. Cf. pipe of peace n. at pipe n.1 27b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > American Indian dancing > [noun] canticoy1670 corn dance1726 pipe dance1778 bear dance1784 sun dance1849 Ghost Dance1876 matachin1882 chicken dance1888 Ghost Dancing1890 snake-dance1931 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 268 The Indians have several kinds of dances..as the Pipe or Calumet Dance, the War Dance, the Marriage Dance. 1820 Western Rev. Apr. 161 There are a number of other dances, such as the..turkey dance, the new corn dance, the pipe dance, &c. 1871 F. Kelly Narr. Captivity among Sioux Indians 179 A dance peculiar to the tribe where I was, called the pipe dance, is worth mentioning, and is called by the Indians a good medicine. 1896 J. Maclean Canad. Savage Folk ii. 275 The pipes used by the Omahas in the Wawan or pipe dance can only be made by those who have given away horses. 1945 J. T. Adams Album Amer. Hist. II. 233 The Indians put on a pipe dance; presents were distributed. 1999 Las Vegas Rev.-Jrnl. (Nexis) 27 Mar. 1 b Jim Big John..performs a pipe dance Friday at the Native American Arts Festival at the Clark County Heritage Museum. 2. British. A dance in which the dancer steps between long clay pipes on the floor; the music for this dance. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > sword-dance or dancing > [noun] > with pipes instead of swords pipe dance1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 12/2 Sometimes they do the ‘pipe-dance’. For this a number of tobacco-pipes..are laid close together on the floor, and the dancer places the toe of his boot between the different pipes. 1952 W. Wells Constant Billy (1975) (title of song) The Pipe Dance ('Bacca Pipes). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1778 |
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