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One-step   /wən-stɛp/   Listen
noun
one-step  n.  An early ballroom dance, precursor to the foxtrot.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"One-step" Quotes from Famous Books



... to which Hal reduced his characterization of Miss Pierce, by the time the one-step ended. Nevertheless, he admitted to himself that he had been amused. His one chief concern now, however, was the engagement with ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... of silence. Out in the ballroom a noisy one-step was in boisterous progress; there was a great deal of laughter and chattering; the little anteroom seemed as if it must ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres

... expect you to dance," said Jocelyn, with a confidential smile which implied that he and she were above such frivolities. As a matter of fact, he could have taught her the Wogga-Wogga one-step, the Bimbo, the Kiyi, the Ju-bu, the Head-hunter's Hug, and many other cannibalistic steps which, later on, were to become the rage of London and the basis ...
— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne

... of Young Jeff's big hands, Inez the other. There was an uproarious scuffle which ended in the three, laughing immoderately, executing a hybrid folk dance to the one-step which Peter began to play. And Scott danced unmolested during the remainder ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... successfully put her resolution into effect was evidenced by her bright eyes and laughing lips when, two hours afterward, she and Judith seated themselves on a wicker settee after a one-step which they had danced together for old ...
— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft

... moist, her voice was jagged with excitement. He was convinced that he had won her. He clasped her, conscious of her smooth warmth, and solemnly he circled in a heavy version of the one-step. He bumped into only one or two people. "Gosh, I'm not doing so bad; hittin' 'em up like a regular stage dancer!" he gloated; and she answered busily, "Yes—yes—I told you I could teach ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis



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