Contra Dance (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Contra Dance

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

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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