Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dance or dancing-party given in a barn.
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Examples
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But he did it only a few times - and he willingly suspended these, his most impressive and admirable instincts, to embark on a bloody barn-dance with the worst President in living memory.
Johann Hari: Tony Blair Says Full Gay Equality Is Coming to America -- and Clashes With the Pope 2009
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There was no existing model for organizing to promote a musical genre, but the country disc jockeys, the publishers, the record labels, and the producers of the radio barn-dance shows could not re-establish the music on their own.
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It ranges from raw Mississippi Delta blues to sophisticated urban jazz, from barn-dance hoedowns to what Wyatt says is a polka by musicians from the Cape Verde Islands-though with those tangolike twitchings in the rhythm guitar, you might dislocate something if you tried your usual Frank Yankovic moves.
Arts Extra: A Mix Of The Sort Of Famous And The Obscure 2007
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Fern begged her to go as chaperon to a barn-dance in the country, on a Saturday evening.
Main Street 2004
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Fern Mullins and Cy had, the evening before, driven alone to a barn-dance in the country.
Main Street 2004
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Vernon Dalhart went on recording for every new record company that popped up, singing under twenty or thirty different names The big radio stations started "barn-dance" programs on WSB in Atlanta,
Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992
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Moira, Sally and Darrell swung each other round in a most undignified way for fifth-formers, Bill and Clarissa did a kind of barn-dance together, and as for the lower school, they began a most deafening chant that made Mam'zelle put her hands to her ears at once.
In the Fifth at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950
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Fern Mullins and Cy had, the evening before, driven alone to a barn-dance in the country.
Main Street 1920
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Fern begged her to go as chaperon to a barn-dance in the country, on a Saturday evening.
Main Street 1920
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Say, I wonder if Milt's told you about the time we had at a barn-dance once?
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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