Meaning of dance card | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An appointment schedule.
   figuratively
2. A list of items.
   figuratively
3. A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those with whom they have agreed to dance.
   dated

Equivalents

Examples

“My dance card is full this week. What about meeting next week?”

“I won't be leaving this room, Leo. And you're the only name on my dance card, sweetheart. Thanks for lunch.”

“Next on her [Ellie Kendrick's] rapidly filling dance card is 'An Education', a Nick Hornby-scripted movie co-starring fellow rising star Carey Mulligan.”

“It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dance card.”

“As for not working on the "Sex and the City" reboot, she [Patricia Field] said, "The main reason was a time conflict. I wasn't able to be in New York doing that and be in Paris doing 'Emily in Paris.' […] My dance card was full."”

“[Quentin] Tarantino went on: "I never follow the normal dance card that the genre or the subgenres I deal in usually play by. […] I want it to become something bigger and more expansive than that given subgenre."”

“[T]he dance card of companies spying on you while you are online is chocker already.”

“And yet, given how the carnage unfolded, a surprising number of named characters survived. There are still a few unknowns, but the survey of who was left standing as the episode drew to a close was an awfully full dance card.”

“How could your dance card be full already, Martha? You just got here.”

“[…] A. E. Chasmar & Co, Art Stationers and Engravers, 734 Broadway, N.Y. Makers of Fine Engraved work, Artistic Menus, Dance Cards and Souverniers.^([sic – meaning Souvenirs]) One of our specialties is the Exact Reproduction of Jeweled Society Pins on Menus, Dance Cards, etc.”

“[A]t the Belvedere dance on Friday he came and implored me to tell him what colour Lady Blebbins was wearing. It was hyacinth and daffodil faille—the simplest thing, but he was awfully at a loss, poor fellow! And afterwards I saw him put it down on the back of his dance-card.”

“Another peculiar custom of the promenade is the way in which a young woman's dance card is filled up. When a young man invites a young woman to the Junior Promenade he usually does it some months beforehand. As soon as it is settled that she is to come he makes plans for her pleasure by securing for her agreeable partners. In order to facilitate this, preliminary dance cards are issued, and for several weeks before the promenade men are busy in exchanging dances with one another. Thus the young woman's card is entirely filled long before she and her chaperon set foot in New Haven.”

“But all that you are sure of is that your escort offers you his arm with a smile and a stiff bow, that you walk nervously up the winding stairs, step into a dazzle of light, where members of the dance committee are running hither and thither with dance-cards and girls, and where patronesses are smiling, bowing, looking stately, holding their fans, and doing whatever patronesses usually do.”

“[[Episode 1: Telemachus], page 10] Her secrets: old feather fans, tassled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. […] [page 423] In a onepiece evening frock executed in moonlight blue, a tinsel sylph's diadem on her brow with her dancecard fallen beside her moonblue satin slipper, curves her palm softly, breathing quickly.”

“When he asked her about her trip and she showed him, among other souvenirs, her dance card with the initials of the prince on it three times, he had seemed quite pleased.”

“Above the bureau is a wall-mirror with various invitations, dance cards and other memorabilia stuck into the edge of the frame.”

““About that dance …” / Remembering her promise to Peter, Kate said nicely, “Don’t tell me your dance card’s empty. I won’t believe it.” / “I had a cancellation.” / “Then a little rest will do you good.””

“Our hostess' memorabilia included several of the little dancecards that girls of that time used at parties to dance with boys. All the songs that the band was planning to play were listed, each with a blank line next to it that the dancers needed to fill in to share a song. Many of the songs were scratched out, which our hostess explained meant that the girl was reserving those songs for her favorite boy of the evening.”

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