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bedance en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“around, over, about”) + dance.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To dance around; dance about; dance for; dance in celebration of.
   • Such salutations greet Yayati, especially favored by ViSvaci ..., when he returns to heaven under a shower of flowers, sung and bedanced by groups of Gandharvas and Apsarasas, […] 1968, Edward Washburn Hopkins, Epic Mythology:
   • […] and we are not sure that they have not of late years found their way even to France, that soil of all soils the most bedanced by merry lads and lasses. 1853, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age:
   • The images of the Canon of Changes being installed and their gnomons appended, the sages would "bedance them and bedrum them." 1996, Danjiang wen li xue yuan. Wai wên yen chiu so, Tamkang review:

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