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Roger de Coverley
Roger de (or of) Coverley (also Sir Roger de Coverley or ...Coverly) is the name of an English country dance and a Scottish country dance (also known as See also List of Scottish country dances References External links The annotated Sir Roger de Coverley The Complete System of Sir Roger De Coverley wikipedia.org
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Roger de Coverley
Roger de Coverley (ˈrɒdʒə diː ˈkʌvəlɪ) [In early use Roger of Coverly: the later form is due to Addison's introduction of Sir Roger de Coverly (afterwards Coverley) in the Spectator. Acc. to Ralph Thoresby the place-name is the same as Calverley in Yorkshire (see Notes & Queries I. 369), a statement... Oxford English Dictionary
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Bully Dawson
Sir Roger de Coverley is mentioned in The Spectator No. 2 as having "kicked" him in a public coffee house for being called "youngster", and he is noted wikipedia.org
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pierrette
‖ pierrette (pɪəˈrɛt, pjɛˈrɛt) [F., fem. dim. of Pierre Peter, corresponding to pierrot.] A female member of a company of pierrots.1888 Pall Mall G. 9 Mar. 6/1 His pierrettes, his ballet-girls, and his eighteenth-century Sir Roger-de-Coverley dancers. 1889 Ibid. 7 Mar. 3/1 (Carnival at Nice) Mysteri... Oxford English Dictionary
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Thomas Clater
Others which attracted attention were 'The Fortune-Teller Dressing for a Masquerade,’ 'The Morning Lecture,’ 'Christmas in the Country,’ 'Sir Roger de Coverley,’ 'The Music Lesson,’ 'The Smugglers' Cave,’ 'Sunday Morning,’ 'Preparing for the Portrait,’ &c. wikipedia.org
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hemp-dresser
ˈhemp-dresser One who hackles hemp.a 1659 Cleveland Times 81 No zealous Hemp-dresser yet dipp'd me in The Laver of Adoption from my Sin. 1723 Lond. Gaz. No. 6171/10 Benjamin Bellamy..Hempdresser. b. pl. The name of a kind of country-dance.1756 T. Amory J. Buncle (1770) II. 25 We..had the hemp⁓dresse... Oxford English Dictionary
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Caleb Thomas Winchester
Selected Essays of Joseph Addison (1886, 1890) Five Short Courses of Reading in English Literature (1892; third edition, revised, 1911) The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers (1904) Representative English Essays (1914) Notes References External links Wesleyan University alumni Wesleyan University wikipedia.org
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tempête
‖ tempête (tɑ̃pɛt) [Fr., lit. ‘tempest’.] An English country-dance (and tune) of the late-nineteenth century.1873 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) viii. 72 We had a Tempête, the Boulanger and ‘Wiss’. 1879 Manners & Tone of Good Society viii. 139 Country dances, such as the ‘Tempête’, ‘S... Oxford English Dictionary
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Weeden Butler
Poems left in manuscript, including The Syracusan, a tragedy, and Sir Roger de Coverley, a comedy. wikipedia.org
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country-dance
country-dance (ˈkʌntrɪ-ˈdɑːns, -æ-) [f. country + dance, lit. a dance of the country. On its introduction into France the name was perverted to contre-danse, which has been erroneously assumed to be the original form: see contre-dance.] a. A dance practised by country-people, usually in the open air... Oxford English Dictionary
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Bryan Kelly
Volume Two (2021): Fantasy Overture: San Francisco; Calypso’s Isle; Concerto da camera; Four Realms Suite, Capricorn, A Christmas Dance (Sir Roger de Coverley wikipedia.org
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potstick
potstick Now only dial. (ˈpɒtstɪk) Forms: see pot n.1 and stick n.; also 5 pos(s)tyke, postyk(ke. [f. pot n.1 + stick n.] A stick for stirring porridge or anything cooked in a pot. Also, a stick used for moving washing about in a pot.c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xii, Stere it alle togyders ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet
In the latter part of the eighteenth century he was said to be the model for Roger de Coverley, the mildly satirical figure of the Tory gentry guyed in wikipedia.org
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poussette
▪ I. poussette, n. (puːˈsɛt) [a. F. poussette, dim. of pousse a push; see -ette.] An act of poussetting: see poussette v.1814 Moore Mem. (1853) II. 31 Seeing the pretty tremble of her eyelids in a poussette. 1830 Marryat King's Own xxxix, The mazes of poussette and right and left. 1847 Alb. Smith Ch... Oxford English Dictionary
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Pakington family
baronet (1671–1727), was a pronounced high Tory and was very prominent in political life; for long he was regarded as the original of Joseph Addison's Sir Roger de Coverley, but the reasons for this supposition are now regarded as inadequate. wikipedia.org
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