1687 W. Mountfort Injur'd Lovers Epil. (single sheet) We'll have the Monsieur once again from France, With's Hoop and Glasses, and when that's done, He shall Divert you with his Riggadoone.

1691 Satyr against French Ep. A 2 It is an original, I assure you, and drawn as near to the Life as a Limner could take the Features of one dancing the Rigadoon.

a1701 C. Sedley tr. D. A. de Brueys & J. Palaprat Grumbler ii. xvii, in Wks. (1722) II. 185 Will you have a Minuet, Sir?.. The Trocanny, Tricotez, Rigadon? Come, chuse.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋4 Damia made her utterly forgot by a gentle sinking, and a Rigadoon Step.

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless I. viii. 85 The gentleman-commoner..led her some steps of a minuette, then fell into a rigadoon.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. i. 15 He taught us the rigadoons of his own country.

a1845 R. H. Barham House-warming!! in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 297 Sir Christopher..skips away with much glee in his best rigadoon.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table iv She would dance you a rigadoon..very respectably.

1931 E. Ferber Amer. Beauty x. 210 ‘Jude'll dance Beelzebub's own rigadoon, whether you tell her before or after.’

1997 G. Newman & L. E. Brown Brit. in Hanoverian Age 182 Such dances as bourrée canary.., and two specifically English genres, the triple-time hornpipe and a duple-time rigadoon.

1690 T. D'Urfey New Poems 164 (title of poem) To Cloris: An Ode set to the New Riggadon.

1702 Bks. Reprinted in 1701 69/2 in Bibliotheca Annua The newest and best Tunes..With all the Cebells, Minuets, Borees, Rigadoons, Trumpet-Tunes, and Marches now in use.

1731 (title) Instructions upon the Hautboy; together with a curious collection of Marches, Minuets, Rigadoons, and Opera Airs.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 551/2 The rigadoon has two times in a bar, is composed of two strains, each to be repeated.

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. xc. 104 The puissant piper Rob, Whose bagpipe wak'd so hot a rigadoon, From his well-manag'd bag.

1837 L. Hunt Blue-stocking Revels ii, in Poet. Wks. (1844) 117 With Hall he develop'd the rigadoon organ.

1874 F. A. G. Ouseley Musical Form 32 Gavottes, Corantos, Rigadoons, Jiggs, and other old-fashioned dance-tunes.

1917 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 32 553 Johnson's attempts to be free and airy usually suggest the effect of a rigadoon played on a trombone.

1997 W. H. Halverson tr. E. Steen-Nøkleberg Onstage with Grieg xi. 151 If there was ever a case of musical satire, this is it! It is a jovial rigadoon, but a bit caustic and impudent in its observations.

1803 T. G. Fessenden Poet. Petition 14 So fam'd Aldini..Led dead folks down a contra dance And made them rigadoon and chassée.

1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner vii. 73 The Doctor looked as if he should like to rigadoon and sashy [= chassé] across as well as the young one.

1932 Los Angeles Times 14 Mar. 7/2 We were all out under a black moon in a clearing, rigadooning to drums which made voodoo magic.

1999 A. Yudkoff Gene Kelly (2001) 145 They linked their arms, adult and child, and rigadooned around the fountain.