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Sun dance   /sən dæns/   Listen
Sun dance

noun
1.
A ceremonial dance performed by Amerindians at the summer solstice.





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... a native son," explained Landy, as they rode abreast on the widened road. "I got started in the cattle game over to the north on Crazy Woman Creek en the range betwixt that en Sun Dance on the Belle Fourche. I was romancin' round when Teddy Roosevelt made camp up thar. Teddy liked to listen in on some of them Paul Bunyans of the cattle game, en they shore told some tall ones. I think he encouraged 'em in their romancin' jist to git a line on their capacity. ...
— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney


Words linked to "Sun dance" :   ceremonial dance, ritual dancing, ritual dance


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