| 单词 | boston two-step |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBoston two-step 2. A variation of the waltz. Also Boston dip (waltz) (see quot. 1885); Boston two-step, a variation of the two-step. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > waltz > types of waltz slow waltz1804 Viennese waltz1842 trois-temps1859 deux-temps1860 old-fashioned waltz1863 Boston1879 hesitation1914 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others quickstep1793 turkey-trot1839 racket1880 Military Schottische1882 veleta1900 military two-step1911 one-step1911 spot dance1911 Paul Jones1914 foxtrot1915 foxtrotting1916 Maxina1917 Boston two-step1918 slow foxtrot1918 twinkle1920 camel-walk1921 Charleston1923 slop1962 1879 Amer. Punch Oct. 116/1 The Hardshell Baptists will not dance even the Boston Dip Waltzes. 1885 A. Dodworth Dancing 73 Boston... When stepping with the right foot, the left knee is slightly bent, producing the dip, from which the name Boston Dip was derived. 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 8 May 12/8 The young English baron..[was] dancing the Boston with Miss Bazaine. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed ix. 108 Of her infinite poetry of motion it is only necessary to say that she could make even ‘the Boston’ look graceful. 1913 E. Scott All about the Boston 21 Mr. Henry Zay wrote: ‘I have danced the “Boston” for twenty years (I am an American) and say emphatically that there is no set figure that can be called the “Boston”. It is a series of steps or figures—such as the ordinary waltz-step, the “dip”, the “run”, the “reverse”,’ etc. 1913 E. Scott All about the Boston 24 At the present time the term ‘Boston’ is applied to the kind of movement that in its best and most graceful form would be far more consistently described as Rectilineal or Diagonal waltzing. 1918 A. Bennett Pretty Lady iii. 11 Do play for me. Play a boston—a two-step. < as lemmas |
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