"dancetime" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1944 August 19, “Frank Dailey's Terrace Room, Newark”, in Billboard, volume 56, number 34:",
          "text": "However, there is no loss of dancing floor space since a sectioned, wooden covering is placed over the ice when dancetime rolls around and the patrons trip the light fantastic with no apparent discomfort.",
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          "ref": "1975, John Dos Passos, edited by Warren G. French, The Twenties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, page 132:",
          "text": "The wind goes among them detaching sweat-smells from underclothes making muscles itch under overcoats tweaking legs with inklings of dancetime.",
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          "ref": "2006, James B. Reuter, Legacy: Selected Works & Writings of James Reuter, S.J., page 246:",
          "text": "It's dancetime here in the Green Room, and time for you to rest a while.",
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          "ref": "2010, Betty White, Here We Go Again: My Life In Television, page 67:",
          "text": "Al was not only leaving the show, he was leaving the station altogether and moving to KABC to do a dancetime show for young people.",
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          "ref": "1951, Radio Daily-television Daily - Volume 56, Issues 1-62, page 61:",
          "text": "The dancetime stylings of the leader-pianist typify for all ages the carefree mood of a night \"on the town\".",
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          "ref": "2006, Frank Krutnik, In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity, page 174:",
          "text": "In opposition to Rip and Johnny, then, Martinelli and Krause represent a corrupt 'homosexual' bonding: the sadistic sexual circuit which operates between them is italicised during Krause's beating of Rip, which he performs 'to dancetime', with the radio blaring.",
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          "text": "Ragtime and dancetime took their toll of the veteran writers.",
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          "ref": "2006, Frank Krutnik, In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity, page 174:",
          "text": "In opposition to Rip and Johnny, then, Martinelli and Krause represent a corrupt 'homosexual' bonding: the sadistic sexual circuit which operates between them is italicised during Krause's beating of Rip, which he performs 'to dancetime', with the radio blaring.",
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