1) Contra danse 2) Contradance 3) Country dancing 4) Country-dance 5) Dance in Belgium 6) Folk dance 7) Folk dancing 8) Perform a contradance 1) Contradance 2) Longways 3) Sashay 
folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other
• (n.) The quadrille. • (n.) A piece of music in the rhythm of such a dance. • (n.) A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
genre of dance for several couples. The contredanse was an 18th-century French development of the English country dance (q.v.) and was performed ... [3 related articles]
Popular social dance during the eighteenth century; done in rows or circles, it may have derived from English country dancing.
Con'tre·danse` noun [ Confer French contredanse (fr. English Country-dance ). ] 1. (a) A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines. (b) The quadrille. [ Obsolete] 2. (Music) A piece of music in the rhythm of such a...
a variation of the quadrille in which the dancers face each other. · a piece of music suitable for such a dance.