Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A folk dance performed in two lines with the partners facing each other.
- noun The music for this dance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete, obsolete A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
- noun obsolete The quadrille.
- noun (Music) A piece of music in the rhythm of such a dance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
- verb perform a contradance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The work's finale provides the second outing for a tune Beethoven was to employ four times, starting with an orchestra contredanse.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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The work's finale provides the second outing for a tune Beethoven was to employ four times, starting with an orchestra contredanse.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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The work's finale provides the second outing for a tune Beethoven was to employ four times, starting with an orchestra contredanse.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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The work's finale provides the second outing for a tune Beethoven was to employ four times, starting with an orchestra contredanse.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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The work's finale provides the second outing for a tune Beethoven was to employ four times, starting with an orchestra contredanse.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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The work's finale provides the second outing for a tune Beethoven was to employ four times, starting with an orchestra contredanse.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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Lots of old white men perform a contredanse on both sides of the truth.
Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A corps de ballet of human women and men, dressed alike in bold magpie leotards, appeared as music struck up and began to lead the throng in elaborate contredanse patterns.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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Flocks of old gulls, enormous as hens, fluttered with evolutions like a contredanse upon its glossy surface.
The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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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.
Camille Alexandre Dumas fils 1859
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