It can be a synonm for "bar", or a stately English dance of old
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stately - definition of stately in English | Oxford Dictionaries  You can change your cookie settings at any time. ... Definition of stately in English: stately ... 'a stately 19th-century mansion' ... Synonyms. dignified, majestic...
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measure - definition of measure in English | Oxford Dictionaries  Definition of measure in English: .... 'he will be measured for his team blazer next week' ..... 4.2North American A bar of music or the time of a piece of music. ... 4.3archaic A dance, typically one that is stately. .... noun in the senses 'moderation', 'instrument for measuring', 'unit of capacity'): from Old French mesure, from Latin...
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theory - Difference between "Bar" and "Measure" - Music: Practice ...  May 4, 2014 ... See "The Old Measures". ... Here clearly both "a slow and stately dance, like the minuet" and "{To have hard ... separating measures was a "bar line" (or maybe that's a British English thing too). ... You can also say "start at measure 10" ... In fact, the musical definition is plainly "A vertical line across the staff.
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Measure | Definition of Measure by Merriam-Webster  4 a (1) : melody, tune (2) : dance; especially : a slow and stately dance b : rhythmic ... past participle of metiri to measure; akin to Old English mth measure, Greek metron .... 6 : the notes and rests between bar lines on a musical staff .... I was comparing " ordinance" and "measure" and if I can use both in the same statement.
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A list of dances from the OED | OxfordWords blog  Apr 29, 2015 ... This list of dances runs through many different dance (and music) fads and ... breadth and variety of the English language, something that one can trace ... a list of dances mentioned in the OED, some new, some old, some still popular .... The polonaise is a slow, stately dance of Polish origin, which consists...
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Ceilidh Dance instructions - Grand Chain  I have tried to give an indication of suitable tunes along with each dance, ... Scotland's Music and good Scottish music stores around the country. ... 1-2: Starting with the outside foot, walk forward for three steps and hop (or ... one line raising their hands in an arch and the other line dancing underneath, and ..... One variety is:.
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TAP DANCE: A Short History copyrighted - New York Public Library  each show represented--Irish step dancing and African American jazz tap dancing. ... Though the clapping melted their stares, they slapped hands and turned away from each ... Initially a fusion of British and West African musical and step-dance traditions in .... rhythmic patterns while singing or lilting these same rhythms.
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Cheryl A. Wilson, The Arrival of the Waltz in England, 1812 - branch  Here, I tell the story of the waltz's introduction to English society, identify some of the ... [3] The waltz, then, with its sexually suggestive partnerings and Continental .... was entitled to the high privilege of calling and leading off the first dance (34). ... as a young woman that she could not fully participate in this fashionable new...
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2007: Elizabethan English - Washington Revels  As the Washington Revels embarks on its 25th year, we welcome back many old .... This song, depicting rustic town life, was collected by Thomas Ravenscroft .... The tune of this well-known carol is a dance (branle de l'official) found in the Orchsographie .... The traditional fa-la-las were common in Renaissance music.
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A History of Dance - Harold and Meredith Sears, Round Dancing  Mar 24, 2012 ... BARN DANCE: A nineteenth-century American couple dance in 4/4 time ... RAGTIME: Dances performed to syncopated, jazzy music of ragtime,...
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History of Square Dance - Dance History Articles  Square dance is a folk dance with four couples (eight dancers) arranged in a square, ... A square dance call may take a very short time or a very long time to execute. ... For example, the "Allemande Left" is traditionally performed by grasping left .... At the end of the 18th century hunters and settlers came over the mountains...
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Jeopary Questions page 2238 - 7 DEADLY SINS - TriviaBistro.com  "ROAD" SHOW: Patrick Swayze plays a bouncer out to tame a tough bar in this late '80s bone-breaker  FROM THE LATIN FOR...: ..."native country", it's returning...
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6 Classical Dances of India | Britannica.com  Folk dances abound all across the country, and huge crowds of people can be found ... Dance and song features heavily in Indian cinema (so-called Bollywood films), too. ... Originally a temple dance for women, bharatanatyam often is used to express ... Dancer giving a performance of India's traditional kathakali dance.
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The Ugly Duckling: The Refinement of Ragtime Dancing and the ...  The focus of this article is the transformation of ragtime dancing into modern .... steps in a closed couple hold that consisted of simple walking movements. Both .... Compared with both late nineteenth-century round dancing and early twentieth- ..... could perform whiteness and re-inscribe the value of racial purity by avoiding.
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Cotillion - Wikipedia  The cotillion is a social dance, popular in 18th-century Europe and America. Originally for four ... A complete dance composed of a prescribed order of these was called a "set". ... The German cotillion was introduced to New York society at a costume ball with a Louis XV theme given by Mr. William Colford Schermerhorn in...
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repetitive+mistake        Don't mistake an old goat for a preacher because of his beard -  ,    () .... /dans, dahns/, v., danced, dancing, n. v.i. 1. to move one s feet or body, ... The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese...
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A list of dances from the OED | OxfordWords blog  Apr 29, 2015 ... The word tango comes from Spanish, and originally referred to a dance ... There have been dances called the 'twist' since the 1890s, but 'the Twist' that most ... Originating in Poland in the 16th century, this lively country dance for couples .... Samba refers to a Brazilian dance of African origin, as well as to a...
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Cutting A Rug The Old-fashioned Way Things Get Personal In ...  Nov 13, 1992 ... Maybe it's the opportunity to dance to live music that doesn't blast through your eardrums at ... You're up, doing something with other people.
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Act the First. Goldsmith, Oliver. 1909-14. She Stoops to Conquer ...  Here we live in an old rumbling mansion, that looks for all the world like an inn, but that we ... I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine; and I .... The 'squire is going to knock himself down for a song. 80.
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This question originally aired on September 21,... | Jeopardy ...  Category: BALLROOM BLITZ Question: An 18th century dance & a social ball are both called this, from a French word for petticoat Answer: a cotillion
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Bar (music) - Wikipedia  In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number ... Typically, a piece consists of several bars of the same length, and in modern musical notation the number ... In music employing mixed meters, bar lines are instead used to indicate the beginning of rhythmic note ... Sheet music.