cushion-dance

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cushion-dance (plural cushion-dances)

  1. Alternative form of cushion dance
    • 1603, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed with Kindness:
      I, that have ere now deserved a cushion, call for the "Cushion-dance."
    • 1689, John Selden, Table Talk:
      At a solemn dancing, first you had the grave measures, then the corantoes and the galliards, and this is kept up with ceremony; at length to French-more, and the cushion-dance, and then all the company dances, lord and groom, lady and kitchen-maid, no distinction.
    • 1901, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth - Volume 5, page 169:
      Meantime, a cotillon had been called for; then followed a jig, in which Proddy and Mrs. Plumpton distinguished themselves, occasioning immense laughter by their extraordinary and unexpected agility; after that succeeded the fine old dance of "the hay;" andd after a breathing-pause had been allowed, and refreshments handed round, the pretty and animating cushion-dance was performed — the serjeant drumming away all the while with untiring spirit , and Jiggins only stopping now and then to whet his whistle.
    • 2019, Mór Jókai, Peter the Priest:
      The old fool showed no hesitancy about thrusting himself into the circle of young dancers, and shunning the table of drinkers; and yet he longed for a drink; but his mouth watered still more for a kiss from the beautiful Magdalene, and this he might so easily have, if it would only occur to her to invite him to the cushion-dance.