Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Scotch round dance in 2-4 time, similar to the polka, only slower; also, the music for such a dance; -- not to be confounded with the
Écossaise .
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- noun Alternative form of
schottische .
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Examples
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I do the opening dance (the Grand March) and the schottish (I know I spelled that wrong).
$23,000 of foot crushing, corsets, my panties and the BBC Elizabeth McClung 2009
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The brightly lighted lamps lent an additional lustre to yet brighter eyes, and the sprightly tones of various instruments accompanied the graceful evolutions of the dancers, as they threaded the mazes of the country-dance, cotillon, or quadrille; for waltz, polka, and schottish, were then unknown in our ball-rooms.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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Quadrille follows quadrille, the waltz succeeds the schottish, the scene presents one bewildering maze of flaunting gossamers and girating bodies, now floating sylph-like into the foreground, then whirling seductively into the shadowy vista, where the joyous laugh dies out in the din of voices.
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Very likely, a person uneducated in the mysteries of dancing would never adopt the polka or schottish step as an expression of exuberance; but if he dances with a company, he must be governed by the rules of the art, or he will be likely to tread on the toes of his companions, and be the cause of casualties.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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She ran away from him, and looking back with mischief in her eyes, she hummed a schottish, and keeping time to it, danced up the stairway.
The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895
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