Folk dance with mixed European origins, featuring long lines of couples
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For the further improvement of dancing A treatise of chorography, or the art of dancing country dances after a new character ... translated from the French of Monr: Feuillet, and improv'd ... engrav'd on copper plates. With a collection of country dances, ... compos'd and writt in characters by John Essex.
Feuillet, Raoul-Auger, 1659 or 60-1710.Date: [1715?]
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A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.
François BoucherDate: 1740Reference: 32445i- E-books
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The gentleman & lady's companion containing, the newest cotillions and country dances; to which is added, instances of ill manners, to be carefully avoided by youth of both sexes. [Three lines from II. Samuel].
Griffiths, John, dancing master.Date: 1798- Pictures
St Alban's Street, Pall Mall, London: supporters of Charles James Fox and of William Pitt the younger dance around a may-pole together outside the St Alban's tavern. Engraving by W. Dent, 1784.
Dent, W., active 1793.Date: [March 20 1784]Reference: 585319i- E-books
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The scholars companion , containing a choice collection of cotillons [sic] & country-dances. By M.J.C. Fraisier.
Fraisier, M. J. C.Date: [1796]