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Fox-trot   /fɑks-trɑt/   Listen
Fox-trot

noun
1.
A ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences.  Synonym: foxtrot.





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"Fox-trot" Quotes from Famous Books



... across the polished floor to the tune of a simple waltz or a gay fox-trot, the gentleman encircles her waist half way with his right arm, laying the palm of his hand lightly just above the waist line. With his left hand, he holds her right at arm's length in the position most comfortable for ...
— Book of Etiquette • Lillian Eichler
... (which I hadn't told him) were not good enough; but to show there was no ill-feeling he tried to kiss me at parting. So I boxed his ears, slung his own inkpot at him and came away. Oh! it's a great game, Tommy, played slow," she added as an after-thought, and she hummed a snatch of a popular fox-trot. ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins


Words linked to "Fox-trot" :   ballroom dance, ballroom dancing


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