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  • adjective dance Alternative form of terpsichorean.; of or relating to dancing.

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Examples

  • But it wasn't the Terpsichorean pursuits that had taken my husband's attention.

    The Juniper Days - Part I Alison Earls 2011

  • A loss for words: The Terpsichorean Muse ... skip to main | skip to sidebar

    The Terpsichorean Muse... Big Jim 2008

  • The pair danced away with great agility and contentment, — first a waltz, then a galop, then a waltz again, until, in the second waltz, they were bumped by another couple who had joined the Terpsichorean choir.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • I'd been planning to regale you all with the musical and Terpsichorean delights of my trip to South America, but I'm still fighting with my computer.

    Hello Jessica 2006

  • I'd been planning to regale you all with the musical and Terpsichorean delights of my trip to South America, but I'm still fighting with my computer.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Jessica 2006

  • Richmond and Greenwich: an enlightened patron of the drama in all languages and of the Terpsichorean art, he received dramatic professors of all nations at his banquets — English from the

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • This was such an entirely new view of the Terpsichorean art as socially practised, that Mrs Lammle looked at her young friend in some astonishment.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • ‘A Terpsichorean evening!’ he remarked in a voice that was doleful in spite of himself.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • I have also received several invitations to Terpsichorean revels.

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • Then a year on the stage; then six months devoted to the composition of three novels and three plays, each with a Terpsichorean motive.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21 Various

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