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- noun Obsolete form of
dancer .
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Examples
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There parting with her (besides her skinfull of drinke), and English crowne to buy more drinke; for, good wench, she was in a pittious heate; my kindness she requited with dropping a dozen good courtsies, and bidding God blesse the dauncer.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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"Nay," saith she, "if the dauncer will lend me a leash of his belles, I'le venter to treade one myle with him myself."
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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Jonet Howat of Forfar (1661) said, 'Ther was thair present with the divell besyd hirselfe, quhom he callit the prettie dauncer, the said Issobell
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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Man also in all his actions that be not altogether naturall, but are gotten by study & discipline or exercise, as to daunce by measures to sing by note, to play on the lute, and such like, it is a praise to be said an artificiall dauncer, singer, & player on instruments, because they be not exactly knowne or done, but by rules & precepts or teaching of schoolemasters.
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a Blackamoore, or heare smooth speech from a Stammerer, as to finde any thing but blunt mirth in a Morrice dauncer, especially such a one as
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833
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I cannot follow thee a foote farther; but adieu, good dauncer; God speed thee, if thou daunce a Gods name! "
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833
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f With her that is a dauncer be not daily conuerfant, nor 4 heareher, left perhaps thou perish in her efficacie. f Behold $ not a virgin, left perhaps thou be fcandalizedin het beautie.
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