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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope