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Definition of eightsome in English: eightsome(also eightsome reel) nounˈeɪts(ə)m A lively Scottish dance for eight people. Example sentencesExamples - Improving muscle tone also works wonders, so keep up the eightsome reels.
- I've even done the odd eightsome reel, which is as close as anyone should get to folk dancing.
- St Andrew's Day looms and expatriate Scots are turning their thoughts to home, eightsome reels and sheep intestines.
- Forget all about rowdy post-wedding dances where an eightsome is an excuse to throw women around, reels are danced energetically but correctly.
- Exiled clansmen and their ladies danced the eightsome reel, the military two-step and slow Scottish waltzes to the music of a bag-piper.
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