Meaning of schottische | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of French origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
2. Music for the schottische.

Equivalents

Examples

“The aim of whose existence appears to be that of rattling through the polka or schottische with the velocity of a spinning jenny.”

“[…] this abominable German usage we have⟳ imported—the polka and the schottish too […]”

“[…] I could never dare to face⟳ Madame Mélanie Duval, or the Semiramis of dancing mistresses, Madame Michau Adelaide—study⟳ the fashionable steps in secret, and then burst⟳ upon the world as an adept in the Schottische, the Cellarius, and the Deux Temps?”

“The ‘Polka tremblante’, or Schottisch, is also a Bohemian national dance⟳, and was brought out in Paris by Cellarius in 1844.”

“[…] the Schottische is very seldom danced now in its original form⟳[…]”

“It so happened that Pippi was learning to dance⟳ the shottische^([sic]), and she didn't want⟳ to go to bed until she was sure she could do it.”

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