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waltz

Ballroom dance in moderate triple time (3/4) that developed in Germany and Austria during the late 18th century from the Austrian Ländler (traditional peasants' country dance). Associated particularly with Vienna and the Strauss family, whose works include The Blue Danube and The Emperor Waltz, and has remained popular up to the present day. Well-known composers of waltzes who use the waltz as a base for works include Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms, and Maurice Ravel.



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"It's a rest to waltz with you," he said to her, as they fell into the first slow steps of the waltz.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
But I do waltz (pretty well, too, as it happens), and I take Miss Larkins out.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
She warned him that she could not dance anything but a country-dance; but he, of course, was willing to wait for that high felicity, meaning only to be complimentary when he assured her at several intervals that it was a "great bore" that she couldn't waltz, he would have liked so much to waltz with her.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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