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skirt dance

skirt dance noun: a form of dance, popular in burlesque and vaudeville theater of the 1890s, in which women dancers manipulated long, layered skirts with their arms to create a motion of flowing fabric.

Noun

skirt dance (plural skirt dances)

  1. A form of dance, popular in burlesque and vaudeville theater of the 1890s, in which women dancers manipulated long, layered skirts with their arms to create a motion of flowing fabric.

Forms of skirt dance

pluralskirt dances

Questions about skirt dance

What does skirt dance mean?
Skirt dance means a form of dance, popular in burlesque and vaudeville theater of the 1890s, in which women dancers manipulated long, layered skirts with their arms to create a motion of flowing fabric.
What part of speech is skirt dance?
Skirt dance is a noun.
What is the plural of skirt dance?
The plural of skirt dance is skirt dances.

Words near skirt dance in the dictionary

  1. skirrs
  2. skirt
  3. skirt around
  4. skirt chaser
  5. skirt chasers
  6. skirt dance
  7. skirt dances
  8. skirt dancing
  9. skirt finger
  10. skirt fingers
  11. skirt flashing

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