NOUN
- a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
VERB
- perform a contradance
How To Use contredanse In A Sentence
- Both forms of contredanse were performed in France until the Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century.
- Again, it never achieved, in Louisiana, the popularity of the danse ronde, no doubt because many of the figures of the contredanse required an even number of couples.
- The contredanse is a French import, with origins in the court of King Louis XIV.