black bottom
an American dance, popular in the late 1920s, marked by emphatic, sinuous movements of the hips.
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How to use black bottom in a sentence
But that was the environment he came out of—black bottom, even the unions.
It's a single scrim of fabric that cuts the room in two, and whose black bottom edge gets extended along all four walls.
All these raised in the open air on the rich, black bottom and bench land of the Yukon.
In to the Yukon | William Seymour EdwardsThrough the gate, a turn to the left and we reach the black bottom of the gorge untouched by the rising moon.
"And they thought we wouldn't fight" | Floyd GibbonsI prefer black bottom land with a clay subsoil, and a northern slope.
The Apple | Various
The steer had grown small in the distance by the time she came to a place where the black bottom looked safe.
The Wrong Woman | Charles D. StewartDaoud felt as if his heart had dropped into the cold, black bottom of a well.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel | Robert Shea
British Dictionary definitions for black bottom
a dance of the late 1920s that originated in America, involving a sinuous rotation of the hips
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