Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The performances of the devil-dancers of India.
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Examples
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He pointed to three of the bamboo poles erect and devil-dancing in token that fish were hooked and struggling on the lines beneath.
The Water Baby 2010
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He pointed to three of the bamboo poles erect and devil-dancing in token that fish were hooked and struggling on the lines beneath.
THE WATER BABY 2010
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He pointed to three of the bamboo poles erect and devil-dancing in token that fish were hooked and struggling on the lines beneath.
The Water Baby 1919
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We only know that in later ages emotional religion, finding expression as so-called devil-dancing in its lower and as mystical poetry in its higher phases, was prevalent among them.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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In later times it adopted or travestied Buddhist dogma, ritual and literature, much as Taoism did in China, but still remained a repository of necromancy, magic, animal sacrifices, devil-dancing, and such like practices, which have in all ages corrupted Tibetan Buddhism though theoretically disapproved.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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