Meaning of contra dance | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length.

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“[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest⟳ of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view⟳ by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.”

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