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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the character of the so-called “Dance of Death,” a favorite subject in the literature, art, and pantomime of Europe in the middle ages and early Renaissance: apparently based on a series of dialogues of death attributed to Macaber, an old German poet of whom nothing is known. See dance of death, under dance.

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