Definition of "cracovienne" []

• A dance, the krakowiak. (noun)

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• "The cracovienne is a Polish dance for a large and brilliant company and just as Paderewski recalled in his minuet the stately assemblage of days long past, so in his cracovienne he gives us a brilliant picture of a ballroom scene in his native Poland when that country was still in its glory and not partitioned among three nations of Europe."
• "I saw Fanny Elssler dance the _cracovienne_ and the _cachucha_, and it is a memory which will linger with me always."
• ""Two waltzes," said Trix, counting on her fingers; "that's two; one cracovienne, that's three; les lanciers, that's four; one galop, that's five; and one polka quadrille, that's six."