NOUN
- any of various dances by men who step nimbly over swords or flourish them in the air
How To Use sword dance In A Sentence
- Competitors danced the Highland fling, the sword dance, the sean triubhais, the Highland reel, the sailors' hornpipe, the Irish Jig and other dances, preferably to the music of the bagpipe.
- As a young officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he became adept at reels, strathspeys and sword dances.
- The sword dance, similar to an Irish jig of a Highland fling, is usually performed at a Scottish wedding gathering.
- The moon light cast a glamour over the scene as they danced the Sword Dance.
- Other kinds of folk dances are the sword dance and the colourful peacock dance.
- In another corner small girls in kilts and black waistcoats were doing sword dances to pipe music.
- Right arm duels left as a Peking resident performs a sword dance.
- Authorities also plan to attract visitors to summer festivals across the kingdom featuring Bedouin folklore such as an all-male sword dance called Arda, said Abdullah Ibraheem Motaen, regional director of the Supreme Commission for Tourism in Asir's capital Abha. Khaleej Times : UAE News
- As a young officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he became adept at reels, strathspeys and sword dances.
- Henry and Catharine were married within four months after the battle of the North Inch, and never did the corporations of the glovers and hammermen trip their sword dance so featly as at the wedding of the boldest burgess and brightest maiden in Perth. The Fair Maid of Perth
