dance attendance

verb

To wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).

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Meanings

verbdance attendance (third-person singular simple present dances attendance, present participle dancing attendance, simple past and past participle danced attendance)

present singular third person dances attendance · participle present dancing attendance · participle past danced attendance · past danced attendance

  1. archaicidiomaticTo wait obsequiously (on or upon someone).

    A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.

    1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]
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    Astonishingly, the king's health rallied, causing Orléans's antechamber to become deserted again as courtiers rushed back to dance attendance at the royal bedside.

    2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 33

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
attendattend todo forservewait on
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