court dance

noun

1. a dignified dance for performance at a court. Compare folk dance ( def 1 ).

Example Sentences

The company will present a wealth of traditional works, including Kete, an elegant court dance from the Eastern and Ashanti regions instilled with reverence and dignity.

From New York Times

You can find films of Bedhaya, the Javanese court dance genre; a 1966 festival of dances from 13 West African countries in Senegal; Cambodian dance performed at Angkor Wat; boys training in Kathakali, the Indian classical form whose multilayered makeup alone takes hours to apply; and multiple examples of whirling dervishes and Egyptian belly dancing.

From New York Times

So there’s an ongoing baroque court dance between Judge Polster and the states.

From New York Times

“Does the court dance around the Evil One like this every day?”

From Literature

The violin’s rowdy flare-up occurs not within an episodic solo section, as it ought properly to have done, but interloping into the start of the group refrain, an elegant French court dance led by the pair of recorders.

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