cancan

Definitions

1. A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
2. A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.

Equivalents

Examples

“They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance⟳ - a sort⟳ of infernal and fiendish cancan - began.”

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