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n. - A Scottish reel for 8 dancers; 8 people considered as a unit.

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Usage examples (10)
  • 'The last I saw of him he was dancing an eightsome with that gawky Raven girl.
  • They matched his other acquisitions so well that he decided to make an eightsome.
  • The gawky Raven girl who had danced an eightsome reel with Ellis turned out to be the third daughter of an earl.
  • Romantics can box up the Wessex league clubs into a neat little eightsome reel – Plymouth, Torquay, Exeter and Bournemouth along the coast, Yeovil in the middle and, to...
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