palais glide

noun

A type of ballroom dance performed by large groups of people with linked arms, involving gliding steps and high kicks.

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nounpalais glide (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA type of ballroom dance performed by large groups of people with linked arms, involving gliding steps and high kicks.

    I used to slink past at night and hear the stamp of feet doing a palais glide to ‘Ten Pretty Girls’ or a foxtrot to ‘Roll Along Covered Wagon, Roll Along’.

    1963, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, The Scarecrow, Text Classics, published 2012, page 130
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