Country-dance

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Country-dance \Coun"try-dance`\ (-d?ns`), n. [Prob. an
     adaptation of contradance.]
     See {Contradance}.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           He had introduced the English country-dance to the


           knowledge of the Dutch ladies.           --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  country-dance
       n : a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets
           or face one another in a line [syn: {country dancing}, {contredanse},
            {contra danse}, {contradance}]
       v : perform a contradance [syn: {contradance}, {contredanse}, {contra
           danse}]