| 单词 | dog dance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdog dance dog dance n. a ceremonial dance performed by some American Indian groups. ΚΠ 1807 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 23 Mar. in Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 84 In the evening we were entertained with the calumet and dog dance. 1854 J. G. Wood Sketches Animal Life 134 There is the dog-dance, in which the liver of the dog is suspended to a pole..The Indians..commence a slow dance round the pole. 1931 B. Evans & M. G. Evans Amer. Indian Dance Steps 95 ‘The Peace Dance is..almost the same as the Dog Dance.’ Back of all these conflicting versions there is probably a very ancient symbolic ceremonial whose origin is lost in the obscurity of a remote past. 1998 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 26 Nov. g1 Second-graders at Our Lady of Prompt Succor..perform a dog dance during Indian Day. 2002 Jrnl. World. Hist. 13 286 Among the Arapaho,..the leader and his four associates in the Dog Dance pledged never to retreat. < as lemmas |
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