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rain dance
noun
- (especially among American Indians) a ritualistic dance performed to bring rain.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rain dance1
First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences
This week, the broadcast networks once again presented their annual rain dance known as upfront presentations.
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My pulse was jumping lumpily, my lungs refusing to work right, my head doing a Hopi rain dance.
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If he wishes for sun or wind or rain, "he summons his tribe, and dances a sun dance or a wind dance or a rain dance."
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With spectacular ceremonial and regalia the Indians staged their "rain dance."
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He wished he'd acted more grown up that night they watched the rain dance at the pueblo.
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One of the most usual of their dances, managed something like our ballets, is called the Rain-dance.
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