📖 Definitions of "Rigadoon"
noun
- 1
A quickstep dance for two people.
- 2
The music for this dance.
- 3
Formerly in the French army, the beat of a drum while culprits were being marched to punishment.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Rigadoon"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| rigaudonnoun | Alternative form of rigadoon. [(dance) A quickstep dance for two people.] |
| round dancenoun | (dance) A dance for couples with a whirling or revolving motion, such as the waltz or polka. |
| reelnoun | A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound. |
| roundnoun | A circular or spherical object or part of an object. |
| riverdancernoun | A person who riverdances. |
| rondolettonoun | (music) A simple rondo. |
| rhumbanoun | Alternative spelling of rumba. [A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time.] |
| roundabout | Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary. |
| rondeaunoun | (poetry) A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas. |
| radeaunoun | A float; a raft. |
| rondlenoun | (obsolete) A rondeau. |
| rondonoun | (music, countable) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. |
| rondelnoun | A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two. |
| rond de jambenoun | (ballet) The movement of a leg in a semicircular motion, either on the ground (par terre) or in the air (en l'air). |
| virginia reelnoun | An English country dance dating from the 17th century, popular in America between 1830 and 1890. |
| roller disconoun | A disco where the dancers wear roller skates. |
| randannoun | (Scotland) Riotous or disorderly behaviour. |
| rondinonoun | (music) Synonym of rondoletto. |
| ridenoun | An instance of riding. |
| rasguedonoun | (music) rasgueado |
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