contra dance
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length.
verb
To participate in a contra dance.
Example Sentences
- "[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe."
Etymology
Borrowed from French contredanse.