Romaika

[The Romaika is a modern Greek dance, characterized by serpentining figures and handkerchief-throwing among the dancers.

Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

It is not unlikely that this remarkable religious ceremony is a relic of some native African dance, as the Romaika is of the classical Pyrrhic.

Slave Songs of the United States. 1867

There were old men and women, the elders and parents, as well as the young men and maidens, who had come with happy hearts, to amuse themselves with various light sports, but chiefly to dance their favourite Romaika, which has been handed down to them from the earliest days of their heroic ancestors, when it was known under the more classic name of the Cretan or Doedalian dance.

The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

[8] "I saw above thirty parties engaged in dancing the Romaika upon the sand; in some of these groups, the girl who led them chased the retreating wave."

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815

It is very distinct from the stupid Romaika, [220] the dull round-about of the

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Turkish despotism, and I found most of the poorer inhabitants of the town strolling upon the shore, and the rich absent at their farms; but in riding three miles along the coast, I saw above thirty parties engaged in dancing the Romaika upon the sand; in some of these groups, the girl who led them chased the retreating wave, and it was in vain that her followers hurried their steps; some of them were generally caught by the returning sea, and all would court the laugh rather than break the indissoluble chain.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827 Various

As a companion to "_Come Dance the Romaika_," will be published, "_Come

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892 Various 1876