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Contradance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variants of contredanse.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of contra dance.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A dance by four couples placed opposite each other and making the same steps and figures. See country-dance.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. perform a contradance

n. a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line

Word Usage

"Their first piece was a sprightly Mozart contradance-fast, but not too fast, with a French horn solo in the middle that Lisa choked on half the time, even in yesterday's dress rehearsal."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

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