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Rigadoon   Listen
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Rigadoon  n.  A gay, lively dance for one couple, said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. "Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rigadoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the music, and not the product of skill and practice. Now Clidamira came on with a crowd of graces, and demanded my judgment with so sweet an air—and she had no sooner carried it, but Damia made her utterly forgot by a gentle sinking, and a rigadoon step.[341] The contest held a full half-hour; and I protest, I saw no manner of difference in their perfections, till they came up together, and expected my sentence. "Look ye, ladies," said I, "I see no difference in the least ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken



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