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dance cards

dance cards is the plural of dance card.

Meaning of dance card

Noun

dance card (plural dance cards)

  1. (figuratively) An appointment schedule.
    • My dance card is full this week. What about meeting next week?
  2. (figuratively) A list of items.
    • [Quentin] Tarantino went on: "I never follow the normal dance card that the genre or the subgenres I deal in usually play by. […] I want it to become something bigger and more expansive than that given subgenre."2009 August 21, “‘Inglourious Basterds’ director Quentin Tarantino picks his favorite WWII movies”, in Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.: Northwest Publications, published 13 November 2015, →ISSN...
  3. (dated) A card on which a person (usually a woman) lists those with whom they have agreed to dance.
    • How could your dance card be full already, Martha? You just got here.

Forms of dance cards

alternative formdancecards
alternative formdance-cards

Questions about dance cards

What is dance cards the plural of?
Dance cards is the plural of dance card.

Words near dance cards in the dictionary

  1. dance band
  2. dance bands
  3. dance belt
  4. dance belts
  5. dance card
  6. dance cards
  7. dance drama
  8. dance dramas
  9. dance drug
  10. dance flies
  11. dance floor

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