Elf-dance
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A dance performed by elves.
"Just then, in the far distance, swept along a whirlwind which had caught up the dust of the plains into columns — two, three, four, all at once dancing some wild elf-dance, like weird spirits doomed to do penance for ever upon, those arid tracks."
- 2 Synonym of fairy ring (“a ring of fungi; a place where fairies dance”).
"The Elves are extremely fond of dancing in the meadows, where they form those circles of a livelier green which from them are called Elf-dance (Elfdans)."
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More examples"Just then, in the far distance, swept along a whirlwind which had caught up the dust of the plains into columns — two, three, four, all at once dancing some wild elf-dance, like weird spirits doomed to do penance for ever upon, those arid tracks."
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