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Folk dance

noun

A style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts). Synonym: folk dancing.

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... elders who had forgotten their youth. To the onlooker it did not seem to matter very much whether the dance, as it is now, continues or not. Occasionally one had an impression that it had once been a folk dance of vigour and significance. But the present-day performance might have been conceived and presented by a P.S.A. All this is true when the dance is contrasted with an English West-country dance or a dance in Scotland at Hallowe'en. But it ...

— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott

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