Associations to the word «Contredanse»

Wiktionary

CONTREDANSE, noun. A folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other.
CONTREDANSE, noun. The quadrille.
CONTREDANSE, noun. A piece of music in the rhythm of such a dance.

Dictionary definition

CONTREDANSE, noun. A type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line.
CONTREDANSE, verb. Perform a contradance.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne