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A march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance
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promenade
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES promenade concert promenade deck COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN deck ▪ Inset Watching the world go by from the observation or promenade deck of an Empire Flying-boat, 1930s. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adding to the overall ...
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''This article is about the dance move. See also the promenade position in ballroom dance. For other uses see Promenade (disambiguation) Promenade is a basic dance move in a number of dances such as English Country Dance , contra dance , and square dance ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (label en formal) A prom (gloss: dance). 2 A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll. 3 A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside. vb. 1 To walk. 2 To perform the stylized ...
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n. a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year [syn: prom ] a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: mall ] a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle a march of all the guests at the opening ...
Usage examples of promenade.
Main Street also influenced the malling of many real Main Streets in the 1960s, as cities converted their shopping streets to pedestrian promenades.
Salzman appeared to summon his employer to a game of auction pinocle in the smoking room, and as Abe started to make a feeble promenade around the deckhouse he encountered Moe Griesman.
I came out onto the promenade deck I glanced through the quartzite windows.
From where I stood I could see through the quartzite side of the promenade deck above and beyond the airlock, while I was able at the same time to run a speculative eye over the passengers leaving and arriving.
Here the citizens of Roum promenaded with an energy rarely seen in hot Agupt, and we joined the parade.
They entered an elevator and Salter took them to the top, where they stepped out to a promenade atop the temple that surmounted the museum.
Edge took his part in the promenade, riding Thunder and, with his sabre, saluting the audience.
Gravity howitzers boomed all across town, from Schow Street on the west to Barker Promenade on the east.
Tyrrell and Lieutenant-Commander Farquar were taking a very limited promenade on the narrow, rubber-covered decks of the Scorcher, they felt the boat heave jerkily under their feet.
When they reached the level of the Tepl, the hillfed torrent that brawls through the little city under pretty bridges within walls of solid masonry, they found themselves in almost the only vehicle on a brilliant promenade thronged with a cosmopolitan world.
Through the other three windows the sun would be throwing three squares of light, crossed with the shadows of the window-frames, and where one of these patches marked the unstained floor of the room there would be lying, in accordance with invariable custom, Milka, with her ears pricked as she watched the flies promenading the lighted space.
And then the cold weather before long put an end to the little promenades of rime by the shore, and Gard had to try other lines of attack on this radiant and beflowered German fortress.
They moved and promenaded, paused with teardrops of glass holding bloodlike wine, fluttered their fans of peacocks and palm leaves.
The window in the provinces replaces the theatre and the promenade, she was amusing herself with watching the crowd of boors when she saw a gentleman in a green velvet coat.
After leaving the cardroom, we took a turn around the Promenade Deck before the chilly breeze and misty rain drove us back inside.