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A folk rhythmic and patterned succession of steps to music in which couples face each other in two lines or in a square.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Lots of old white men perform a contredanse on both sides of the truth.
  • The work's finale provides the second outing for a tune Beethoven was to employ four times, starting with an orchestra contredanse.
  • A corps de ballet of human women and men, dressed alike in bold magpie leotards, appeared as music struck up and began to lead the throng in elaborate contredanse patterns.
  • France' s contredanse, and Spain' s contradanza.
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