Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A German dance for couples in 2/4 time.
  • noun The music for this dance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of polka.
  • noun Music for such a dance or in its rhythm.

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  • noun A partnered country dance of Bohemian origin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun music performed for dancing the schottische
  • noun a German round dance resembling a slow polka

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German, from schottisch, Scottish, from Middle High German schottesch, from schotte, a Scot, from Old High German scotto, from Late Latin Scottus, Irishman.]

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French schottish, schotisch, from German schottisch ("Scottish, Scotch").

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Examples

  • Dinah danced with Bobby again, and then Jim, and then Old Sam, who had patented a kind of schottische-rhumba combination that was the dread of every woman in the Park.

    A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003

  • She was perfectly willing for me to dance until 12 o'clock at the imminent peril of my going to sleep on the after-watch -- but then she would top off with a very inconsistent sermon on dancing in general; ending with a terrific broadside aimed at that heresy of heresies, the 'schottische'.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Ma was delighted with her trip, but she was disgusted with the girls for allowing me to embrace and kiss them -- and she was horrified at the 'schottische' as performed by Miss Castle and myself.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • She was perfectly willing for me to dance until 12 o'clock at the imminent peril of my going to sleep on the after-watch -- but then she would top off with a very inconsistent sermon on dancing in general; ending with a terrific broadside aimed at that heresy of heresies, the 'schottische'.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Ma was delighted with her trip, but she was disgusted with the girls for allowing me to embrace and kiss them -- and she was horrified at the 'schottische' as performed by Miss Castle and myself.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Okay, after 11 years I've only figured out how to do the Grand March and a schottische, but it's a start.

    Olympics, amateur athletes, disability and getting OUT THERE Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • He reconjured moonlight schottische dances on the decks of a steamer run by lovable country people, “simple-hearted folk and overflowing with good-fellowship and the milk of human kindness.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He reconjured moonlight schottische dances on the decks of a steamer run by lovable country people, “simple-hearted folk and overflowing with good-fellowship and the milk of human kindness.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • And he did, but all the time his eyes were on Berenice, who was caught up by one youth and another of dapper mien during the progress of the evening and carried rhythmically by in the mazes of the waltz or schottische.

    The Titan 2004

  • Look at the Highland schottische, where you spun round and howled, and the old galop to the tune

    Swan Song 2004

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  • The Schottische is a partnered country dance, Bohemian in origin, that is two short runs and a hop followed by four turning hop steps: step step step hop, step step step hop, step hop step hop step hop step hop.

    Steps alternate one foot to the other, hops are only on one foot, so the leader's footwork would be: left right left hop on left, right left right hop on right, step on left hop on left, step on right hop on right, step on left hop on left, step on right hop on right.

    In a basic step, the running steps are done in open position (follower on the right side of the leader) and the turning steps are done in closed position; but many many variations exists to play with those positions (including parting during the running steps to slip around a slower couple, or the leader genuflecting during the turning step and letting the follower circle around).

    _Wikipedia

    February 25, 2008