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contradancing en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) contra dance
Though the pastime’s popularity has declined since 1976, when the National Square Dance Convention in Anaheim, Calif., drew a record crowd of 40,000, today New York — like Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle and dozens of other American cities — supports a modest but resilient square-dancing and contradancing scene.
2007 July 15, Joy Goodwin, “City Folk Who Feel the Call of the Do-Si-Do”, in New York Times: