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- noun Plural form of
redowa .
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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.
The School Day and the School Year Erika Lindemann 2004
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Why, did they not have their "bees" and sausage-stuffings and tea-parties and dances, that for heartiness and uproar utterly eclipsed all the waltzes, lanciers, redowas, and breakdowns of the nineteenth century, and they never went home till morning.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various
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Besides the above, Mr. Williams has composed eight or ten polka-redowas, and several mazurkas and quadrilles (some of these have been published); and he is the author of several overtures.
Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867
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Most of the boys and girls knew nothing of dancing, as an art; but I venture to say they enjoyed themselves quite as much as though they had been perfectly proficient in all the fashionable waltzes, polkas, and redowas.
All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake A Sequel to "The Boat Club" Oliver Optic 1859
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"I have not the least doubt of it; and, by Terpsichore! what a pretty thing it would be to see the handsome Gustave Adolphe de M---- dancing polkas and redowas in the drawing-rooms of the Faubourg St. Germain with
Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840
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