Esp. in square or country dancing: a dance step in which adjacent dancers facing in opposite directions link arms, touch, or hold hands, and make…

In Scottish and other folk dancing: a figure in which three or more dancers follow a figure-of-eight or similar looping course around one another.

Dance. One of the figures of a quadrille, likened to a dance of shepherds and shepherdesses. Cf. pastorale, n. 2. Now historical.

In country dancing: a figure in which dancers join both hands with a partner and change places with another couple; an act of poussetting.

Dance. = pastourelle, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

A continuous linear series of material objects. ladies' chain: a part of the second figure in a quadrille.

Dance. Also with pronunciation/tʊə/. In a cotillion, a circular movement by the dancers. In Ballet, a turn by a solo dancer; tour en l'air, such a…

A continuous linear series of material objects. A line of people formed for a particular purpose, spec. a bucket chain (see bucket, n.1 compounds); g…

The series of movements or figures that make up a square dance or country dance, esp. the quadrille; the music adapted to this. first set n. see…