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ballroom
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ballroom \Ball"room`\, n. A room for balls or dancing.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A large room used for dance and banquet. 2 A type of elegant dance. n. 1 A large room used for dance and banquet. 2 A type of elegant dance.
WordNet
n. large room used mainly for dancing [syn: dance hall, dance palace]
Wikipedia
A ' ballroom' is a large room inside a building, the designated purpose of which is holding large formal parties called balls. Traditionally, most balls were held in private residences; many mansions contain one or more ballrooms. In other large houses, a large room such as the main drawing room, long gallery, or hall may double as a ballroom, but a good ballroom should have the right type of flooring, such as hardwood flooring or stone flooring (usually marble).
Ballrooms are generally quite large, and may have ceilings higher than other rooms in the same building. The large amount of space for dancing, as well as the highly formal tone of events have given rise to ballroom dancing. The largest balls are now nearly always held in public buildings, and many hotels have a ballroom. They are also designed large to help the sound of orchestras carry well throughout the whole room.
A special case is the annual Vienna Opera Ball, where, just for one night, the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera is turned into a large ballroom. On the eve of the event, the rows of seats are removed from the stalls, and a new floor, level with the stage, is built.
Sometimes ballrooms have stages in the front of the room where the host or a special guest can speak. That stage can also be used for instrumentalists and musical performers.
Ballroom is a musical with a book by Jerome Kass and music by Billy Goldenberg and lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
Based on Kass's teleplay for the 1975 Emmy Award-winning television drama Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, the plot focuses on lonely widow Bea Asher, who becomes romantically involved with Alfred Rossi, a mail carrier she meets at the local dance hall. Her dream of a happily-ever-after relationship is shattered when she discovers Alfred hasn't been as honest about his personal life as she thought.
After eleven previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, opened on December 14, 1978 at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for 116 performances. The cast included Dorothy Loudon as Bea and Vincent Gardenia as Alfred. The sets were by Robin Wagner, and Theoni V. Aldredge designed the costumes.
The production was Bennett's first project following A Chorus Line three years earlier.
Usage examples of "ballroom".
As the FBI set up a command center in the ballroom of the Vista Hotel, and agents from the Bureau and ATF began to crawl through the crater to assess the massive damage, the authorities gave no order to hold or delay any flights departing for the Middle East.
So television viewers across the land, who for the last year had not been able to settle into their recliners without being exposed to a scene of red-white-and-blue balloons and flawlessly coiffed candidates standing in front of blue curtains in hotel ballrooms, were generally befuddled when they checked the evening news on Labor Day and were informed, by solemn anchorpersons, that Tip McLane, the President, and William A.
He did this from a podium in a ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, rented by Affirmative Housing II, as an antiracism workshop.
The club was booked solid, of course, but the Broadmoor actually had a cancellation for one of their ballrooms.
I would have found it very beautiful, but an absurd thing for a coffeehouse baker to be wearing, even a coffeehouse baker in a ballroom with a ball going on in it.
A quartet of singers in Dickensian dress harmonized carols outside the ballroom door.
As the six strolled into the huge ballroom, one of the French doors opened in the opposite wall and a strikingly beautiful woman came forth to meet them in a full green dress.
When he espied her, he swept Felicity around the ballroom in wide circles, bringing them within close proximity of where she stood.
Tang lightly flavored with rubbing alcohol, and, nodding and babbling to all and sundry, made his way to the press of fans around the ballroom bar to secure another.
The many small rooms off the ballroom, the ones with padded floors, are intended for men and women to use for copulation -- in a word, for fucking, as I suspect that some of you have already discovered.
They kept a wide berth around the ballroom, their gazes drifting on the dance ending below.
As Evelyn watched in openmouthed amazement, children poured into the ballroom.
He and Peavy reversed themselves back to the gate car whilst the crowd of women crossed the huge ballroom toward the French doors.
Stewart, was always at hand at midnight, at dawn, or whenever the wayward day ended, to roll Thady Boy out of the pothouse, the ballroom floor or the gutter and see him safely to bed.
Music drifted from the ballroom on the still night air, punc tuated only by the shouts and laughter of those lurking in the shrubbery.