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medicine dance
noun
- a ritual dance performed by some North American Indians to invoke supernatural assistance as for driving out disease.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of medicine dance1
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Example Sentences
Then we danced the medicine dance; and Kasiascall went alone to the country of the Chinooks, to the fort of the Boston men.
The tune they sung to the Medicine-dance of the Loucheux, struck me as being soft and pretty.
After a medicine dance, according to Indian custom, they proposed a feast, but there was nothing on which to feast.
After two days the Indian doctors held a medicine dance for her benefit.
It may be the boys medicine dance, part of the ritual which will keep harm away from him.
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