rigadoon

/rig-uh-doon/US // ˌrɪg əˈdun //UK // (ˌrɪɡəˈduːn) //

严谨性,严谨,严谨的态度

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
- : a piece of music for this dance or in its rhythm.

The dance itself is nothing; it might as well be called a Rigadoon or a Sailor's Hornpipe, so far as the steps go.
To build a city he had only to play a rigadoon and a minuet; but the other hero destroyed them by the sound of rams' horns.
Arm in arm, their sabots clogging, they did a rigadoon down the winding road.
She would dance you a rigadoon or cut a pigeon's wing for you very respectably.
And the Doctor looked as if he should like to rigadoon and sashy across as well as the young one he was talkin' about.