terpsichorean

comparative more terpsichorean · superlative most terpsichorean · alternative terpsichoreal · alternative Terpsichorean · alternative terpsichorial · alternative terpsichorian

1. danceOf or relating to dancing.

   Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!

   1970, Monty Python, The Cheese Shop

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   The pair danced away with great agility and contentment,—first a waltz, then a galop, then a waltz again, until, in the second waltz, they were bumped by another couple who had joined the Terpsichorean choir.

   1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

   This was such an entirely new view of the Terpsichorean art as socially practised, that Mrs Lammle looked at her young friend in some astonishment

   1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

   They're quiet enough in the morning hours, They're quiet enough in the afternoon, Reserving their terpsichorean powers To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon.

   1939, T. S. Eliot, “The Song of the Jellicles”, in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

plural terpsichoreans · alternative terpsichoreal · alternative Terpsichorean · alternative terpsichorial · alternative terpsichorian

1. A person who dances, especially professionally.

1. alternativenot comparabledanceAlternative form of terpsichorean; of or relating to dancing.