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dance attendance

dance attendance verb: to wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).

Verb

dance attendance (third-person singular simple present dances attendance, present participle dancing attendance, simple past and past participle danced attendance)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) To wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).
    • A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
    • Astonishingly, the king's health rallied, causing Orléans's antechamber to become deserted again as courtiers rushed back to dance attendance at the royal bedside.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 33

Forms of dance attendance

third-person singular presentdances attendance
present participledancing attendance
past participledanced attendance
pastdanced attendance

Questions about dance attendance

What does dance attendance mean?
Dance attendance means to wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).
What part of speech is dance attendance?
Dance attendance is a verb.
What is the past tense of dance attendance?
The past tense of dance attendance is danced attendance.

Words near dance attendance in the dictionary

  1. dancable
  2. Dancalan
  3. dancathon
  4. dance
  5. dance around
  6. dance attendance
  7. dance band
  8. dance bands
  9. dance belt
  10. dance belts
  11. dance card

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