dansant

[ dahn-sahn ]

noun

, French.

, plural dan·sants [dahnsahn].

1. thé dansant.

Example Sentences

The tableau dansant reframes the mural — and ballet, dissolving some of its social hierarchies.

From New York Times

Over two days, nonstop jamming on the roof and in the cozy bar of the barge, the Anako, was interspersed with performances, workshops, a “bal dansant” and a lecture on the roots of old time music as sunshine warmed a crowd armed with banjos, fiddles, mandolins, guitars — and, yes, spoons — singing about lazy bones, weary bones and an inability to “buy my blues away.”

From New York Times

There were dresses for a thé dansant, dainty and frosted, in a macaron palette.

From The New Yorker

Cousin Rose also dresses up like a maid after she makes Anna take her to a thé dansant to dance to ragtime with commoners, and one of those lads comes looking for her; Jimmy sees her kiss him and she says she’ll be his friend forever if he keeps the secret, which may be worth remembering later.

From Time

Cousin Rose also dresses up like a maid after she makes Anna take her to a thé dansant to dance to ragtime with commoners, and one of those lads comes looking for her; Jimmy sees her kiss him and she says she’ll be his friend forever if he keeps the secret, which may be worth remembering later.

From Time