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- noun Plural form of
mazourka .
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Examples
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A band played quadrilles, schottisches, redowas, waltzes, polkas, and mazourkas, and some students spent part of the spring semester taking private dancing lessons to make a good impression.
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The grounds are illumined as if it were day, barrels of pitch are everywhere burning, torches are blazing high upon his walls, windows and doors are thrown open, harps sound and trumpets thunder, mazourkas swell upon the ear, and the gay groups twine, twist, reel, half mad with joyous excitement.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Had dancing, polkas and mazourkas being especial favorites; singing also, and music from La Norma and Sonnambula, exquisitely performed.
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The time for mazourkas and cracoviennes is past: they have been replaced by law cases, pleading, chicanery, and all its tiresome accompaniments; his language is so learned that one can no longer understand him.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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In the '50s it was quite common, and my dear music book of that date holds ever so many dedicated polkas and mazourkas.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,
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No more did Mrs. Tanberry extemporize Dan Tuckers, mazourkas, or quadrilles in the ball-room, nor Blind-Man's Buff in the library; no more did serenaders nightly seek the garden with instrumental plunkings and vocal gifts of harmony.
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And the world which loves the lilting rhythms of Chopin's mazourkas seldom cares to peep behind the screen of notes for the anguish ambushed there.
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After tea the visitor generally asked for music; and Clarissa would play her favourite waltzes and mazourkas, while the two gentlemen went on with their conversation.
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What are we to think, then, of the delicacy which shrinks from the reading-room frequented by men; which discovers so suddenly that magazines are more embarrassing than mazourkas; that to read in a cloak and hat before a man is more indelicate than to waltz in his presence half denuded by fashion?
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And under his phenomenal fingers, a haunting, tender, world-sorrow, full of questionings -- a dark mystery of moonless, starlit nature -- exhales itself in nocturnes, in impromptus, in preludes -- in mere waltzes and mazourkas even!
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