farandole

• Every now and then there would be a ronde or a farandole,—the farandole forcing its way through the crowd, every one carrying a lantern and looking like a brilliant snake winding in and out. —  My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
• The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France. —  Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
• The farandole bears similarities to the gavotte, jig, and tarantella. —  Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
• On the whole, a long and narrow steamboat is not an especially good place for a farandole; but the leader of that one--a young person from the Odéon, whose hair came down repeatedly but whose exceptionally high spirits never came down at all--was not one of the sort whom difficulties deter. —  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
• Save for a slight correspondence with a single member of the party, all aboard the boat were strangers to us; but in that kindly atmosphere, before we had time to fancy that we were outsiders, we found ourselves among friends Givors slipped by almost unnoticed in the thick of the farandole: a little town hung out to sun in long strips upon terraces rising from the water-side; the walls and tiled roofs making a general effect of warm greys and yellows dashed with the bright greens of shrubs and trees and gardens and the yellow green of vines. —  The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals

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