Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of ballet-dancing in which the effect is produced by graceful movements of the skirts, which are sufficiently long and full to be waved in the hands of the dancer.
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Examples
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She was the first to make skirt-dancing popular, although that achievement will not be regarded as an unmixed benefit by every student of the art.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The demands of the public sometimes forced upon her odious ballet-skirts, sometimes she wasted her talent on the futilities of skirt-dancing; but chiefly she loved the national measures, and her phenomenal leanness made her only comfortable in the national dress.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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Mr. McCabe may recognize an example of what I mean in the gradual discrediting in society of the ancient European waltz or dance with partners, and the substitution of that horrible and degrading oriental interlude which is known as skirt-dancing.
Heretics 1905
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Our own step-dancing remains popular, and for a while the hybrid skirt-dancing triumphed, chiefly because of the genius of Kate Vaughan and talent of her successors, one of whom,
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896
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Other nights other services, and the hysterical worship sometimes embraces a sort of serpentine skirt-dancing with frenzied twirling.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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Perhaps even the higher life -- the skirt-dancing and the poker work -- has its bothers.
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It is the skirt-dancing and the poker work that cannot brook rivalry.
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"I believe the skirt-dancing frightened you away, Sir John," said
With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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"Together with the latest skirt-dancing girl, and the last female society-detective, with the blushing honours of the witness-box thick upon her," suggested Jack Meredith.
With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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What this reverend complainer would have thought of the multitudinous exhibitions of masculine collegiate skirt-dancing of the present day is impossible to fathom.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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