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noun
A partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of German origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Music for the schottische.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To dance a schottische.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
a German round dance resembling a slow polka
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: round dance, ring dance
noun
music performed for dancing the schottische
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: folk music, ethnic music, folk
History
From German schottische (“Scottish”), as in der schottische Tanz (“the Scottish dance”). First attested in 1849. The Oxford English Dictionary comments that the “quasi-French pronunciation [...] has no justification”.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
