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  1. noun An English folk dance in which a story is enacted by costumed dancers.

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  • In my way, in Leadenhall Street, there was morris-dancing which I have not seen a great while. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1663
  • Which meant Dick Sharpe would have been morris-dancing at the end of a rope so I reckoned it was easier to put on the scarlet coat. —  Sharpe's Tiger
  • More soldiers waited there, a mounted escort to convoy him and the Gate Masters back to the city. —  Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • How shall we observe Lent and Easter, with two moons morris-dancing about to confuse the issue? " —  The High Crusade
  • Maura, listening to all this, was frightened. —  Dangerous Lady
 

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  1. Middle English moreys (daunce), morris (dance), from moreys, Moorish, from Old French morois, from More, Moor; see Moor.

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  1. Also morrice; from Middle English morris, morres, morice, from Old French *moreis, moresque, morisque, French moresque = Italian moresco, from Spanish Morisco, Moorish, from Moro, a Moor: see Moor. Cf. Moresque, Morisco.
  2. from morris, n.
  3. New Latin, so called after William Morris, who first found it, on the coast of Wales.
 

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