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cover-the-buckle en · NOUN
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A traditional dance step in which one foot is brought across to cover or nearly cover the buckle of the other shoe.
[T]he young bachelors that wanted to show aff their dancin' an' their new pumps, an' their bright red or green an' yellow garthers, swore that it confused thim so that they cud nivir go rightly through the heel-and-toe, or cover-the-buckle, or any uv their best steps, but felt thimsilves always bedizzied an' bewildhered[.]
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 524:
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