NOUN
- a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
VERB
- perform a contradance
How To Use country-dance In A Sentence
- Well, at the end of each term there was what they called an "exhibition ball," in which the scholars danced cotillons and country-dances; also something called a "gavotte," and I think one or more walked a minuet. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
- A country-dance was called, and the _epicier_ claimed the fair hand of the gentle Adele. Night and Morning, Volume 3
- Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen, who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counsellors, and clergy. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- After the feasting two famous biniou-players took up their places on the high talus that separated Ker-Eliane from Loch-ar-Brugg and played the farandol, the jabadao, and other country-dances for the peasants to dance to. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
