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‖ Totentanz|ˈtotəntants|
Also 8 Toden Tans; (Hist.) Todtentanz.
[Ger.]
= dance of death s.v. dance n. 6 c. Also fig.
1789Emblems of Mortality p. xxiv, He [sc. Holbein] also engraved several things upon wood, among which are his Scripture Cuts, and Dance of Death, vulgarly called Toden Tans. 1937Jrnl. Archæol. Assoc. I. 249 Switzerland, which was once rich in representations of the Dances of Death, has suffered grievous losses. All that remains are a few..fragments in Museums. The earliest of these—the Klingental Totentanz at Basle—..was destroyed..about 1850. 1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 144 (heading) Totentanz. Ibid. 163 Your first big reception, duckie, shall be a Totentanz. 1964W. G. Raffé Dict. Dance 50/1 The popular play and mime dance of the Todtentanz was then [sc. in 1535] still extant in its ritual or miracle play form. 1966J. Fowles Magus xix. 113 Dupes of the reality of war, of the ultimate Totentanz. 1982P. Dickinson Last House-Party (1983) ii. 18 Time emerged..no friendly old gaffer with a scythe, but close kin to the skeleton reaper of the Totentanz. |