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circle dance en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A style of social dance in which performers form a circle and dance to musical accompaniment.
    • The circle dance is characterized not only by the circle formation (which other dances may share) but by the fact that couples or individuals keep progressing around the circle and dancing with new couples or individuals […] 1950, Lloyd Shaw, The Round Dance Book: A Century of Waltzing, page 371:

Forms

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circle dances Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

chain dance · round dance

Synonyms

ring dance