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Definition: Morris Dance |
Morris DanceNoun1. Any of various English folk dances performed by men in costume. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "morris dance" was first used: 1458. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Morris Dance brought to England in the reign of Edward III., when John of Gaunt returned from Spain. In the dance, bells were jingled, and staves or swords clashed. It was a military dance of the Moors or Moriscos, in which five men and a boy engaged; the boy wore a morione or head-piece, and was called Mad Morion. (See Maid Marian .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are records mentioning the Morris Dance dating back to 1477, and it is mentioned in Renaissance documents in France, Italy, and Spain. The term then was "moorish dance" and "Moresco", which was gradually corrupted to "Morris Dance".
In the modern day, it is commonly thought of as a uniquely English activity, although there are around 150 Morris teams in North America. The dance is also still practiced in Barcelona, Spain, where it is perfomed by girls or women.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Morris dance."
Synonym: Morris DanceSynonym: morris dancing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Morris Dance |
| English words defined with "morris dance": Maidmarian, Morisco, morris dancer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "morris dance": Hobby-horse. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
morris dance | 6 |
mark morris dance group | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "morris dance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | moriskentanz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monochrome, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomania, monomaniac, monomer, monopolize, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotone, monotype, moped, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, morality, moratorium, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | モリスダンス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | daunse Mooragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orrismay anceday dans popular englez. (various references) bahar dansı (Morris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | morois. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-m-n-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: corianders, dormancies, mordancies. | |
-2 letters: airdromes, coadmires, comedians, coriander, crimsoned, demoniacs, misrecord, ordainers, reordains, romancers, romanised. | |
-3 letters: admirers, adorners, airdrome, amidones, aneroids, armoires, armories, carmines, carrions, carromed, coadmire, codeinas, comedian, comrades, consider, corrades, corridas, cremains, daemonic, daimones, demoniac, diocesan, disarmer, drainers, endosarc, idocrase, incomers, indorser, madrones, mariners, marrieds, minorcas, miradors, misorder, monacids, moraines, ordainer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-m-n-o-r-r-s" | |
+5 letters: endarterectomies. | |
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