'Country-dance' definitions:
Definition of 'country-dance'
(from WordNet)
noun
A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line [syn: country-dance, country dancing, contredanse, contra danse, contradance]
verb
Definition of 'Country-dance'
From: GCIDE
- Country-dance \Coun"try-dance`\ (-d?ns`), n. [Prob. an adaptation of contradance.] See Contradance. [1913 Webster]
- He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]