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A woman's dress with a tight bodice and an overskirt drawn back to reveal a colorful underskirt
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polonaise
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A stately Polish dance in triple time and moderate tempo. 2 music for this dance. 3 A woman's dress having a tight bodice and a skirt divided to show a coloured underskirt.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polonaise \Po`lo*naise"\, n. [Written also Polonese and Polonoise.] The Polish language. An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and an outer skirt in one piece. (Mus.) A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The polonaise (, ; ) is a dance of Polish origin, in time . Its name is French for "Polish." The polonaise had a rhythm quite close to that of the Swedish semiquaver or sixteenth-note polska , and the two dances have a common origin. Polonaise is a widespread ...
Usage examples of polonaise.
Oysters Rockefeller, Bienville and Roffignac-flounder Nouvelle Orleans, stuffed with seasoned crabmeat, choux fleur Polonaise, pommes au four, and-from the hovering wine steward-a bottle of Montrachet.
She played Chopin--studies, waltzes, mazurkas, preludes, a polonaise or two.
He ordered for them both: 2-2-2 hultres-the house's specialty combining Oysters Rockefeller, Bienville and Roffignac-flounder Nouvelle Orleans, stuffed with seasoned crabmeat, choux fleur Polonaise, pommes au four, and-from the hovering wine steward-a bottle of Montrachet.
A quarter of an hour after my arrival, the ball began with a polonaise.
This consists of a simple gros de laine, trimmed with ashes of roses, with overskirt of scare bleu ventre saint gris, cut bias on the off-side, with facings of petit polonaise and narrow insertions of pa^te de foie gras backstitched to the mise en sce`ne in the form of a jeu d'esprit.
Her skirt was much narrower than anything Alamitos had seen, or for that matter, Philadelphia or San Francisco, and the polonaise of flowered material was startling.
Highness very kindly made the Crown Prince walk the Polonaise with her.
Jellied chicken loaf, and chives and sesame seed biscuits, followed by Dwight's dessert specialty, a Hampton polonaise: a cake made with layers of almond and chocolate, which he serves with a sweet whipped cream.