单词 | set to partners |
释义 | > as lemmasset to partners 103. Dance. (intransitive) To take up a position and perform a number of steps with one's face to one's partner or to the dancer on one's right or left. Chiefly in set to partners, set to corners (also set corners). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [verb (intransitive)] > figures > specific figures set1652 balance1775 poussette1798 thread the needle1843 1652 Dancing Master Expl. Charac. Set and turn single, is a single to one hand, and a single to the other, and turn single. 1652 Dancing Master 1 Sides all, set and turn S. 1652 Dancing Master 72 Meet all, back again, set to your own, and to the next. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 67. ⁋9 A..Step called Setting, which I know not how to describe to you, but by telling you that it is the very reverse of Back to Back. 1791 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 147 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 562 The dancers..reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit. 1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 2 Tou kens we danc'd a threesome reel, And Betty set to me. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 55 Set corners, ladies. 1811 T. Wilson Country Dancing (ed. 2) 6 Foot and set are the same; it is merely dancing in your place to fill up the time of the music. 1894 E. Scott Dancing 113 The gentleman sets to and turns with the lady on his left hand. 1894 E. Scott Dancing 119 Set to partners and turn. 1894 E. Scott Dancing 120 All set to corners and turn... They set and turn to places. < as lemmas |
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