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palais glide

palais glide noun: a type of ballroom dance performed by large groups of people with linked arms, involving gliding steps and high kicks.

Noun

palais glide (uncountable)

  1. A type of ballroom dance performed by large groups of people with linked arms, involving gliding steps and high kicks.
    • I used to slink past at night and hear the stamp of feet doing a palais glide to ‘Ten Pretty Girls’ or a foxtrot to ‘Roll Along Covered Wagon, Roll Along’.1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 130

Questions about palais glide

What does palais glide mean?
Palais glide means a type of ballroom dance performed by large groups of people with linked arms, involving gliding steps and high kicks.
What part of speech is palais glide?
Palais glide is a noun.

Words near palais glide in the dictionary

  1. Palaihnihan
  2. Palaio Faliro
  3. Palaio Faliron
  4. Palaiologan
  5. Palaiologans
  6. palais glide
  7. palaistra
  8. palaistrai
  9. palaistras
  10. palaiyakkarar
  11. palaiyakkarars

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