Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dance-hall.
- noun A house in which ceremonial dances, or religious ceremonials connected with dances, are performed.
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Examples
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The most popular dance hall in the neighborhood was owned by Pete Williams, described as a “well-to-do, coal-black Negro, who has made an immense amount of money from the profits of his dance-house.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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And it so happened, probably because saw-mills and house-space were scarce, that the saloons accommodated the gambling tables and the polished dance-house floors.
CHAPTER 9 2010
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Either it was a big nugget, or a new reef, or a tent robbery, a gold-buyer stuck up and robbed in the Ironbarks, a horse-stealing match, a fight at a dance-house, or a big law case.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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Stanley visited the place and was amazed at what he saw: I walked on to a dance-house.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Stanley visited the place and was amazed at what he saw: I walked on to a dance-house.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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She is Molly May, who keeps the largest dance-house in Cascade
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A mammoth tent was erected for a dance-house and gambling purposes.
Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle
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The dance-house and the gambling-saloon, flaunting their gaudy attractions, own him for the hour their king.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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She found herself so unable to perceive its merits that it was almost a relief to see nothing of Miss Howe either; Hilda had gone to rehearsal, to the "dance-house," the servant said, eyeing the unusual landau.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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The hospital was opened on Easter, and the first patient was a poor consumptive girl, but lately an inmate of the Red-Light dance-house.
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