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Meanings of dance of death in English

Portuguese
dança macabra
Catalan
dansa de la mort
Wikidata

A medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave.

dança macabra
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Examples for "danse macabre"
Examples for "danse macabre"
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And they were just waiting to drag all the partners into their danse macabre.
Damaged
2
It has become a danse macabre.
The Guardian
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Instead he only made marionettes that whirred and clicked as they swung around in a ghoulish danse macabre.
Sea of Rust
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Enter Cassie, mad, bad but stimulating to know, and the danse macabre hots up from a waltz to a fast foxtrot.
The Irish Times
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Far from being a danse macabre, choreographer Andy Howitt's homage is an unashamed victory celebration, a largely upbeat retrospective of the glory days.
The Irish Times
Usage of dance of death in English
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Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on.
Rilla of Ingleside
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We are about to close the masquerade by the dance of death.
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2
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Round and round it eddied, a dust-devil dancing a dance of death.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
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Turning in Florence's direction, he once more danced his dance of death.
The Teeth of the Tiger
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It will be years before the dance of death is over-years ,Mary
Rilla of Ingleside
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Swarms of very minute flies came to the candle dancing their dance of death.
Three Months of My Life
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It sprang from east, west, north, south, and was a perfect dance of death.
Far from the Madding Crowd
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It lifted me in a dance of death and joy.
Micah & Strange Candy
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All ready, Jack, and now for another ' dance of death.
My Lady of the North
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His legs kicked in a dance of death, his brains exposed to the light.
Stinger
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You have made the anklet sounds of the dance of death tinkle in my heart.
The Home and the World
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His dance had carried him very near to the verge of the dance of death.
Oowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River Indians
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And now the dance of death began anew.
The Great Hunger
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The semiautomatic weapon and the deputies did a dance of death, spectral figures in the fog.
Phantoms
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To the west, where the shadows were even now gathering, in their twilight dance of death.
The stand
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That scene has the feel of both a ritual sacrifice and a perversely intimate dance of death.
The Last of the Mohicans
Translations for dance of death