Crossword-Solution: SARDANA 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

With his war costume, coat of mail of gold and silver, cross-belt and scabbard glistening with precious stones, boots with golden spurs, helmet ornamented with an aigrette of brilliant diamonds, Feofar presented an aspect rather strange than imposing for a Tartar Sardana-palus, an undisputed sovereign, who directs at his pleasure the life and fortune of his subjects.

The days of the waltz, onestep, and other dances now in vogue in many lands (though not in Spain) had not yet come; rather, the dances were very largely national or regional, such as the _seguidillas_ or _boleros_, the _fandango_, _guaracha_, _zorongo_, _arlequín_, _chacona_, _zarabanda_, the Aragonese _jota_, the Valencian _dansetes_, and the Catalonian _sardana_, all of which gave great play to the individual and represented harmonious action of the entire body.

Many years afterwards the good Begum of Sardana died, but her houses and lands are still in existence; nor does anybody living in that town forget the story of the oilman who died and lived again.

The folk, erecting stands Upon the people's pavements, come together From pueblo, barrio, in families, Lured by the lilting playing of the bands, Rejoicing in the balmy summer weather, In spreading rings they weave fine fantasies Like rare mosaics of many-colored lights._ _Kindled, it glows, the magical Sardana, And sweeps the city in a glorious blaze.