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Dance — function taking place south of Latvian capital
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rigadoon
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigadoon \Rig`a*doon"\, n. [F. rigadon, rigaudon.] A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. --W. Irving. Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. --Wolcott.
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Rigadoon is a novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline , published posthumously in 1969. The story is based on Céline's escape from France to Denmark after the invasion of Normandy , after he had been associated with the Vichy regime . It is the ...
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n. 1 A quickstep dance for two people. 2 The music for this dance.
Usage examples of rigadoon.
While the first hooded would-be assassin howled with pain and executed a ragged rigadoon on the stately carpet, Harry was vaulting a flowered divan.
A young marine captain led Shanna through a rigadoon, encouraging the other officers to ask for the same favor.
While he taught us the rigadoons of his own country, his vanity induced him to attempt feats much above the cumbrous weight of his frame.
They danced by the thousands in the streets of the cities —in grotesque rigadoons, in bizarre sarabands, with shuffle and hop, and jig the robots danced while the people fled in panic and hundreds of them were crushed and died in those panics.