ˈfigure-dance
A dance, or exhibition of dancing, consisting of several distinct figures or divisions (see quot. 1801).
| 1801 Strutt Sports & Past. iii. v. 175 The grand figure-dances..are..pantomimical representations of historical and poetical subjects, expressed by fantastic gestures. |
| fig. 1816 Coleridge Lay Serm. 327 The giddy figure-dance of political changes. |