morris dance in English

noun
1
a lively traditional English dance performed outdoors by groups known as “sides.” Dancers wear distinctive costumes that are mainly black and white and have small bells attached, and often carry handkerchiefs or sticks.
George and the Dragon was played all over the country by bands of mummers, who would blacken their faces with soot and wear animal masks and ragged costumes - some morris dance groups echo these once-pagan traditions today.
noun
    morris dancing

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1. English ancestor of American square dance was the Morris dance.

2. The Outside Capering Crew - exciting and entertaining English morris dance - with the occasional twist.

3. A variation of the Morris dance is the horn dance held annually at Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, England.

4. Sentence Examples The prancing and Curveting of horses was counterfeited in the hobby-horse, the usual concomitant of the morris-dance

5. This manual contains detailed instructions for numerous styles of dance ( branle , galliard , pavane ), as well as short sections about military music, drumming, and marching, and a few details about dance forms such as Morris dance , the Canary (reputed to be dances from the Canary Islands ), the Allemande , Courante , and Bassadance .