| 单词 | circassian circle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCircassian circle Of, pertaining to, or connected with the Circassians; Circassian circle: a type of dance popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Caucasus > [adjective] Circassian1638 Alan1705 Lezgin1780 Abkhaz1788 Mingrelian1788 Ossetin1788 Abaza1823 Lezgi1828 Ainua1837 Adyghe1847 Ossetic1850 Ossetian1854 Svanetian1854 Abkhazian1856 Avarian1875 Ossete1884 Ossetan1892 Kabardian1902 Gurian1932 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > group dances Circassian circle1888 snake-dance1931 conga1935 palais glide1936 Big Apple1937 Madison1960 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 290 Scander..King of Georgia..by a Sarcashien Lady had 3 hopefull sonnes. a1791 J. Wesley Serm. in Wks. (1811) IX. 234 Bodies of Georgian, Circassian, Mengrelian Christians. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 172 The personal beauty for which the modern Persians are noted is inherited from Circassian and Georgian concubines. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 788/2 The greatest stain upon the Circassian character was the custom of selling their children. 1888 R. Kipling Daughter of Regiment in Plain Tales from Hills 174 A gentleman who doesn't know the Circassian Circle ought not to stand up for it. 1920 Blackwood Mag. Aug. 153/2 A troop of some thirty Circassian horsemen. 1963 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times II. 109 At the dancing-class..the thrill of meeting Clive and taking her hand for a moment or two in the peregrinations of the Circassian circle. < as lemmas |
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