rigadoon

He waited, whistling a rigadoon softly while later guests passed by.

The orchestra was playing a rigadoon.

Also spelled Rigadoon, it is a sprightly 17th-century French folk dance for couples.

His stomach danced a rigadoon.

The rigaudon (also spelled rigadon, rigadoon) is a French baroque dance with a lively duple metre.

I play much of the Rigadoon but it is strange, it don't come off QUITE so well with me!

Then jaunted through a lively rigadoon To please him with a dance By Purcell, for he said that surely all Good Englishmen had pride in national Accomplishment.

"We recommend banning the danza and danzón because they are vestiges of Africa and should be replaced by essentially European dances such as the quadrille and rigadoon."

"When my time comes will you at least refrain from a rigadoon on my little plot even though you may be certain in your own mind it will make my journey into the hereafter more agreeable?"

Twilight was an impossible thing in the atmosphere of Mars, and the Martian night clamped down with frigid breath, and the stars danced out in the near-black sky, twinkling, dazzling stars that jigged a weird rigadoon in space.

They glided past, the glided fast, Like travellers through a mist: They mocked the moon in a rigadoon Of delicate turn and twist, And with formal pace and loathsome grace The phantoms kept their tryst.