contredanse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French contredanse, itself from English country dance.
Noun[edit]
contredanse (countable and uncountable, plural contredanses)
- A folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other.
- The quadrille.
- A piece of music in the rhythm of such a dance.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English country-dance, with assimilation of first element to contre-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
contredanse f (plural contredanses)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: contra dance, → contredanse
- → Spanish: contradanza
Further reading[edit]
- “contredanse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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