A dance.--Johnson. This word has always been used here as in England as a familiar term for dance; but of late years it has been employed among us in a technical sense, to denote a dance where there is less display and ceremony than at regular balls. At Saratoga Springs, where a large majority of the people are strangers to each other, it is customary to have a dance or hop at the fashionable hotel three times a week, during the season when the waters are most resorted to.
n. «the name for all species of Dodonaea» (Maiden, p. 417), N.O. Sapindaceae. 1883. F. M. Bailey, ...
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n. a peculiar affected gait. See quotation. 1875. `Spectator' (Melbourne), May 22, p. 27, col. 2: ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris