Regency Word Wednesday

July 17, 2013May 7, 2013 Cora Lee

Contra Dance

“A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other, instead of a side by side, as in the minuet, rigadoon, louvre, etc. and now corruptly called a country dance.”

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