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  • noun Plural form of waltzer.

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Examples

  • The video to Stay+'s track Stay Positive shows teenagers screaming on what appear to be waltzers.

    Tim Jonze On Shuffle … House 2011

  • And the stallions will have to tough it out in the stalls for the time being because the waltzers have arrived. ullsteinbild/TopFoto Tickets for the Vienna Opera Ball cost €16,000 per box seat From the New Year through the end of Carnival (or Fasching in German) on Feb. 16, Austria is hosting some 800 balls, hundreds of them in Vienna.

    Waltzing Fever Is Afoot Patti McCracken 2010

  • There were no waltzers, hawkers or chip vans: everyone was transfixed.

    Sometimes they get it right. « Sven’s guide to… 2007

  • As always the dance floor swirled with elegant waltzers impeccably clad in tails and evening gowns.

    Who's In Charge Here? 2008

  • At a ball, an overhead camera captures the decorous dizziness of waltzers orbiting about the monogrammed parquet.

    This Fall's A Ball 2008

  • Being one of the managers of the entertainment, Lord Kew returned to it after conducting Lady Anne and her daughter to their carriage, and now danced with great vigour, and with his usual kindness, selecting those ladies whom other waltzers rejected because they were too old, or too plain, or too stout, or what not.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • He spoke French with considerable fluency; and was one of the finest waltzers in Europe.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Then the table was moved into a corner, where the quivering moulds of jelly seemed to keep time to the music; and whilst Percy played, two couple of waltzers actually whirled round the little room.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Barnes is one of the very best waltzers in all society, that is the truth; whereas it must be confessed Some One Else was very heavy and slow, his great foot always crushing you, and he always begging your pardon.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Many with whom the "morning is all rehearsal and the evening is all performance," who give to waltzing and music the time, which they owe to solid learning or domestic duties, not only sacrifice utility to show, know little of household economy and useful learning, but after all make indifferent musicians and very sorry waltzers.

    Women's Sphere of Influence on Civilization (1837) 2003

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