| 单词 | twinkle step |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwinkle step 4. A ballroom dance (step), danced to slow Blues music. Also twinkle step. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others quickstep1793 turkey-trot1839 racket1880 Military Schottische1882 veleta1900 military two-step1911 one-step1911 spot dance1911 Paul Jones1914 foxtrot1915 foxtrotting1916 Maxina1917 Boston two-step1918 slow foxtrot1918 twinkle1920 camel-walk1921 Charleston1923 slop1962 1920 A. E. W. Mason Summons xxi. 220 ‘Do you know the fox-trot?’ ‘A little.’ ‘The twinkle step?’ ‘Not at all.’ 1927 Daily Express 9 Sept. 8/3 A liberal use of ‘The Twinkle’, a step which is most attractive when danced to the slow music. 1936 A. Moore Ballroom Dancing v. 214 A Twinkle is a figure of three steps. The feet are closed..on the 2nd step and the weight is changed, and the 1st and 3rd steps are both taken in a forward direction or both in a backward direction. 1962 L. K. Engel Fred Astaire Dance Bk. xv. 47 The Open Twinkle is a slight variation of the basic One Step. 1975 G. Howell In Vogue 9/2 We got syncopated music and what to do to it—the Baleta, the Maxina, the Twinkle, the Jog Trot, the Vampire, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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