Etymology

contredanse

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Today it means: A folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other. Full definition →

French contredanse ← English country dance
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The story

  1. English · derived fromcountry dance
  2. French · borrowed fromcontredanse
  3. English todaycontredanse

From French contredanse, itself from English country dance.

Words from the same roots

Frenchcontredanse all →

contra dancecontradanza

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.