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‖ écossaise
Also 9 ecossaise.
[F. écossaise fem. adj. ‘Scotch’. Cf. schottische.]
a. (See quot.)
1863E. Pauer Programme 27 Apr., A lively dance tune in 2/4 time. In older music the Ecossaise was in 3/4 slow time, and was sometimes used for the Andante.
b. A dance to such a tune.
1841Mrs. Gaskell Let. (1966) 43 A very fashionable waltz step came up while we were at Heidelberg the ecossaise,—and the little girls with their empty milk pails went dancing it along the road. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) II. 881/2 Authorities differ about the question whether the Écossaise and the Schottisch are..one and the same kind of dance... The modern view is that the dance has nothing to do with Scotland, but was..originally a French dance. |