"skirt dance" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: skirt dances [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} skirt dance (plural skirt dances)
  1. A form of dance, popular in burlesque and vaudeville theater of the 1890s, in which women dancers manipulated long, layered skirts with their arms to create a motion of flowing fabric. Wikipedia link: skirt dance Categories (topical): Dance
    Sense id: en-skirt_dance-en-noun-Lx-SKDyE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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