▪ I. valse, n.
(vɔːls)
Also 8 volse.
[a. F. valse (= Sp. vals, Pg. valsa, It. valzer), ad. G. walzer waltz.]
A round dance in triple time, a waltz; the music for this. Also attrib.
| 1796 Times 19 Feb. in Ashton Old Times (1885) 321 The young Ladies are particularly favourable to a German Dance, called the Volse. 1880 Grove's Dict. Mus. I. 350/1 [Chopin's] first..compositions were dances: Polonaises, Mazurkas, and Valses. 1894 E. Scott Dancing 168 The Versa, a new Valse Dance. |
▪ II. valse, v.
(vɔːls)
[f. prec., or ad. F. valser (= Sp. and Pg. valsar).]
intr. To dance the valse or waltz; to waltz.
| 1870 H. Smart Race for Wife i, I am quite willing to look on at your valsing for another hour. 1876 The World V. No. 114. 19 With whom Maud fancies herself in love because he valses so divinely. |
Hence ˈvalser, ˈvalsing vbl. n. (also transf.)
| 1870 R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 102 The gnats are dancing round and round..I wonder that that incessant valsing does not make them giddy. |
▪ III. valse
southern ME. var. false a. and v.