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n. Any set step routine dancing such as ceilidh dance, highland dance, barn dance, and square dance. vb. To take part in country dancing.
Wikipedia
A country dance is any of a large number of social dances of the British Isles in which couples dance together in a figure or "set", each dancer dancing to his or her partner and each couple dancing to the other couples in the set. A set consists most commonly of two or three couples, sometimes four and rarely five or six. Often dancers follow a "caller" who names each change in the figures.
Introduced to France and then Germany and Italy in the course of the 17th century, country dances gave rise to the contradanse, one of the significant dance forms in classical music. Introduced to America by French immigrants, it remains popular in the United States as contra dance and had great influence upon Latin American music as contradanza. The Anglais (from the French word meaning "English") or Angloise is another term for the English country dance. A Scottish country dance may be termed an Ecossaise. Irish set dance is also related.
Country Dance (also known as Brotherly Love in the USA) is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel Household Ghosts (1961) by James Kennaway which became a three-act stage play in 1967. The film was released on 22 April 1970; it was directed by J. Lee Thompson.
Usage examples of "country dance".
He'd requested one lively country dance after another, pausing between each only long enough to kiss Kiyrstin and seek a fresh partner.
Before Merana could ask again, the door opened and Bera and Kiruna were herded in by Corele Hovian, a boyishly slim Yellow with thick black eyebrows and a mass of raven hair that gave her something of a wild appearance no matter how neatly she dressed, and she always dressed for a country dance, with masses of embroidery on her sleeves and bodice and up the sides of her skirts.
They had barely returned to the side of the room before Flick's hand was solicited for a country dance.
Gavin was enjoying a country dance with his mother-in-law when he noticed that Pierce was talking with Philip, and there was a tension to the exchange that set off warning bells.