Definition of country-dance Country-dance
coun•try•dance
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What does country-dance mean?
WordNet
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| country-dance - a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | ||
| country dancing, contredanse, contra danse, contradance | ||
| folk dance, folk dancing a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts) | ||
| longways, longways dance country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other | ||
| square dance, square dancing American country dancing in which couples form squares | ||
| do-si-do a square-dance figure; two dancers approach each other and circle back to back before returning to their original places | ||
| promenade a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance | ||
| sashay a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps | ||
| swing changing location by moving back and forth | ||
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Wiktionary 
- country-dance (Noun)
A dance carried out in the countryside, or by country people; used as a generic name for many native British dances, especially where partners face each other in a long line.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- country-dance (n.)
See Contradance.
