Sir Roger de Coverley

noun

1. an English country dance performed by two rows of dancers facing each other.

Sir Roger de Coverley

noun

1. an English country dance performed to a traditional tune by two rows of dancers facing each other

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sir Roger de Coverley¹

First recorded in 1680–90; earlier Roger of Coverly, apparently a fictional name

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sir Roger de Coverley¹

C18: alteration of Roger of Coverley influenced by Sir Roger de Coverley, a fictitious character appearing in the Spectator essays by Addison and Steele

Example Sentences

His particular favourite was the grand-sounding Sir Roger de Coverley, a country dance involving lines of couples that would have become rather complicated with a few too many glasses of milky gin.

From BBC

Like his countryman and adviser, Washington Irving, he had visited, doubtless, many scenes of quiet English country life, and one of these is reproduced in his well-known picture of Sir Roger de Coverley going to Church, which was exhibited in 1819.

From Project Gutenberg

In reading, "Sir Roger de Coverley" with notes by Willis, published in the Traveller's Library, I find at p.

From Project Gutenberg

Dancing or games usually precede these amusements, and lasts from half to three-quarters of an hour; little girls dance with each other round and square dances, as little girls are, as a rule, more partial to dancing than are little boys, although they one and all, great and small, join with glee in a country dance, or in the Tempête, or in "Sir Roger de Coverley."

From Project Gutenberg

It is a relief to get away from such a world, and, leaving the fine gentleman behind, to take the rumbling stagecoach to the estates of Sir Roger de Coverley.

From Project Gutenberg