Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See lancer, 4.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the lower field a terce of lanciers, shaking unsheathed shafts, their arms crossed in sal-tire, embusked, sinople.
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Their _rigadon_, a square dance not unlike our lanciers, the Filipinos take very seriously, stepping through it with all the unsmiling dignity of our grandparents in the minuet.
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Why, did they not have their "bees" and sausage-stuffings and tea-parties and dances, that for heartiness and uproar utterly eclipsed all the waltzes, lanciers, redowas, and breakdowns of the nineteenth century, and they never went home till morning.
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He had twelve lanciers, six on each side of him in a row, standing with their lances erect, the
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
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It was the lanciers, and he knew the steps far better than I did.
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This scene is supposed to be just off the ballroom, and it is here that Gwendoline comes during the lanciers and encounters
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Willoughby through a lanciers, took the favorite of fortune aside.
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For an hour Florence was engaged in playing waltzes, gallops and lanciers music.
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[78] Of this reception the _National Republican_ said: The attractions presented by the fair seekers of the ballot were so much superior to those of the dancing reception going on in the parlors above, that it was almost impossible to form a set of the lanciers until after the gathering in the lower parlors had entirely dispersed.
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He was just that kind of a fellow who could propose to a girl while he was asking her out for a set of the lanciers, or handing her a plate of salad at supper.
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