waltz

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Certainly Peter Klausson did press her too close to his waistcoat Olsen therefore sought her out as soon as the waltz was over, but it was not so easy to secure a dance; a waltz was the first one for which she was free, and she gave him that.

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  1. noun A ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat.
  2. noun A piece of music for this dance.
  3. noun An instrumental or vocal composition in triple time.

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  • After a mazourka comes a waltz, and Cecil is made supremely happy How utterly bewitching they look!" —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • We knew the polka and the waltz, the mazurka, the quadrille, and the lancers, and several fancy dances. —  The Promised Land
  • Now Leander flattered himself he could waltz--having had considerable practice in bygone days in a select assembly, where the tickets were two shillings each, and the gentlemen, as the notices said ambiguously enough, "were restricted to wearing gloves So he felt indignantly that Ada was not having justice done to her. —  The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance
  • I'd forgotten she jumped Before the waltz was nearly over he led her back to a chair, alleging as his excuse that he was afraid to abandon his ring any longer, and hastened away to the spot where it was to be found He went along the same path, and soon came to an enclosure; but no sooner had he entered it than he saw that he must have mistaken his way; this was not the right place. —  The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance
  • Then we can have a waltz, and try a vanilla--and a polka, and some lemonade! —  About Peggy Saville
 

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quadrille ·  polka ·  mazurka ·  minuet ·  jig ·  tune ·  hymn ·  ballad ·  valse ·  ballet ·  duet ·  symphony

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waltz:   waltzing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. German Walzer, from walzen, to turn about, from Middle High German, to roll, from Old High German walzan; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. valse (later English valse), from German walzer, a round dance, waltz, from walzen, roll: see walt, v.
  2. from waltz, n.
 

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