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shadow dance

noun

  1. a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shadow dance1

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

She said that Mignon told her last night that Jerry had hired Veronica to come to the party and do that shadow dance.

At the end of their labors, Frieda and Jean started a shadow dance with a big red tablecloth which Ruth had washed none too clean.

Then came a great social event, the annual "mask and shadow dance" of a local political organization.

In the half darkness Polly danced a shadow dance and then flung her arms about her friend.

Ceres sat before the hearth with the child in her lap, and the fire-light making her shadow dance upon the ceiling overhead.

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