Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Bohemian dance, which has two forms—the rejdowák, resembling the waltz or the mazurka, and the rejdowachka, resembling the polka.
- n. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, which is properly triple and quick, but in another form is duple, and readily assimilated to that of the polka.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A Bohemian dance of two kinds, one in triple time, like a waltz, the other in two-four time, like a polka. The former is most in use.
Etymologies
- Via French. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now I 'm going to get Sherry, or some of the fellows that do the redowa well, so you can have a real good go before the music stops.”
“Maud happened to be playing a redowa up in the parlor, and”
“I 'm going to begin with a redowa, because the girls like it, and it 's better fun than square dances.”
“Of these, the best known, which I might mention, are the tarantella of the Neapolitans, the bolero and fandango of the Spaniards, the mazurka and cracovienna of Poland, the cosack of Russia, the redowa of Bohemia, the quadrille and cotillion of France, the waltz, polka and gallopade of Germany, the reel and sword dance of Scotland, the minuet and hornpipe of England, the jig of Ireland, and the last to capture America is the tango.”
“The polka redowa and the polka mazourka are modifications of this step to different times.”
“There was the streaming of lamps and chandeliers, the swell of enchanting music, the whirl of the fascinating polka, redowa or mazurka, while throngs of richly attired and lovely women were constantly enhancing the magnificence of the scene by their arrival.”
“For twenty-five cents I have seen a man at the circus do something more wonderful, -- make a very living bay horse dance a redowa round the amphitheatre on his (it occurs to me that _hind-legs_ is indelicate) posterior extremities to the wayward music of an out-of-town (_Scotice_, out-o'-toon) band.”
“Ashburner had seen Edwards driving a magnificent trotter about Oldport, but could not exactly fancy him outside of a horse, and conjectured that he would not make quite so good a figure as when leading the redowa down”
“Ashburner made a calculation that, counting in the serenades, the inhabitants of Oldport were edified by waltz, polka, and redowa music (in those days the _Schottisch_ was not), eleven hours out of the twenty-four, daily.”
“She showed him her ball book with demure satisfaction when he strolled instead of rushed up to claim her for the next, a glorious polka redowa.”
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