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medicine dance

medicine dance noun: a ritual dance ceremony performed as a form of therapy.

Noun

medicine dance (plural medicine dances)

  1. A ritual dance ceremony performed as a form of therapy.
    • The medicine man, remembering the previous winter's disastrous prediction, decided to cover himself. So he did a medicine dance, threw some spirit dust around and proclaimed, "Winter will be bad."1994, Mike Hayes, Tell Us Anothree! More yarns from all around Australia, Sydney: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, published 2001, page 83

Forms of medicine dance

pluralmedicine dances

Questions about medicine dance

What does medicine dance mean?
Medicine dance means a ritual dance ceremony performed as a form of therapy.
What part of speech is medicine dance?
Medicine dance is a noun.
What is the plural of medicine dance?
The plural of medicine dance is medicine dances.

Words near medicine dance in the dictionary

  1. Medicine Bow
  2. medicine cabinet
  3. medicine cabinets
  4. medicine chest
  5. medicine chests
  6. medicine dance
  7. medicine dances
  8. Medicine Hat
  9. Medicine Line
  10. medicine lodge
  11. medicine lodges

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