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barn dance
noun
- a social gathering, originally held in a barn, and including square dances, round dances, and hoedown music.
- any party featuring country dances, dress, music, etc.
barn dance
noun
- a progressive round country dance
- a party with hoedown music and square-dancing
- a party featuring country dancing
- a disco or party held in a barn
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Word History and Origins
Origin of barn dance1
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Example Sentences
The band was playing, slowly, as is the dancing-fashion of the North, that Barn Dance; and almost every girl was in white.
Are you clean daffy, doin' a barn dance around that rusty capstan, makin' a noise fit to frighten the fish?
It was at a country barn dance during these few days that he met Moyra Dolan.
"And women pet them; they'd prefer a fool who can pot rabbits and do a barn-dance to Homer himself," growled Yate.
It was the day that Annixter had chosen for his barn-dance and, in consequence, Quien Sabe was in fete and work suspended.
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