Crossword-Solution: CONTREDANSE
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| A variation of the quadrille. | 1 answer |
| Country Dance | 21 answers |
| Dance | 115 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZCEA
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eruption
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Sentences with CONTREDANSE (5)
After the _contredanse_ I went up to the mistress of the house, who displayed for the benefit of her guests a dazzling bosom and magnificent shoulders.
The _contredanse_ represented was originally the old country dance exported to France and returned with certain arrangements added.
Aussi, lorsque Henri, espérant que sa cousine ne résisterait pas à l'entraînement de la première ritournelle, vint, malgré sa réponse, l'inviter à danser comme d'habitude la première contredanse avec lui, Sara se contenta, cette fois, de lui répondre: —Vous savez que je ne danse pas ce soir, mon cousin.
Though all knew every step and danced with grace and ease, they perhaps did not know that the dance was that of Sir Roger de Coverley; that it was one of a large number of English country dances, so called, not because they were danced in the country, but because their English ancestors corrupted the French word _contredanse_, which had to do with the position the dancers assume.
Flocks of old gulls, enormous as hens, fluttered with evolutions like a contredanse upon its glossy surface.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1960).