farandoles

Meeting by moonlight nights to sing their love songs and rhymed legends in the city square, the Gruyère people better loved their dances, the long Celtic Korols (or Coraules), when, singing in chorus in wild winding farandoles, they went dancing over vales and hills, day in and day out until human strength could bear no more.

The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

"Blanc," was gravely tried, and, by the majority of the votes of the crowd, condemned to death, the principal judge, a man named Arnaud, saying, "Blanc! you prevent us from dancing farandoles, and therefore we condemn you to death!"

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

The other leaves, and then the harvesters continue their merry-making, with singing and farandoles, about a great bonfire in honor of Saint John.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

I find it difficult to believe that _farandoles_ and _boleros_ could ever represent prayer; I can hardly persuade myself that it can be an act of thanksgiving to trample peppers under foot or appearing to grind at an imaginary coffee-mill with one's arms.

The Cathedral 1877

Sicardot, Messieurs Garconnet, Peirotte and the others, who had been shut up in one of the rooms at the mayor's, the windows of which overlooked the Grand 'Place, watched the _farandoles_ and wild outbursts of enthusiasm with surprise and dismay.

The Fortune of the Rougons ��mile Zola 1871

A quiet-living worthy tradesman on weekdays, on important occasions an officer in the National Guard, Monsieur L "le grand Chicard," dressed in the most eccentric of costumes, led indescribable farandoles to the sound of broken chairs and pistol shots, accompanied by Musard's orchestra, at these entertainments.

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859

_farandoles_ which you may see there to this day: from his very babyhood he was a prince among the children.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893