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Meaning of dance attendance | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).

archaic, idiomatic

Examples

“A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.”
“Astonishingly, the king's health rallied, causing Orléans's antechamber to become deserted again as courtiers rushed back to dance attendance at the royal bedside.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

dance on a rope dance on nothing dance on someone's grave dance out dance the hempen jig dance the Tyburn jig

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