ring dance

A ring-dance imitation-play, the metrical portion of which is not without a little melody.

A much more barbaric performance than the stately and solemn movement of the ring dance, or kolo.

The next two lines are then sung, and the two children in the ring dance round and kiss.

The word coraula is still used to denote the ring-dance in Switzerland; also coreihi, to leap (choreare), Rochholz, p. 371.

Roundel, rown′del, n. anything of a round form or figure: a circle: a ring-dance, a rondel.