Definition of "round dance" []

• A folk dance performed with the dancers arranged in a circle. (noun)
• A ballroom dance in which couples proceed in a circular direction around the room. (noun)

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• "Richard Portland-Smith had retired from the round dance of life while his measure in it was yet incomplete and nobody knew why."
• "They wove in a round dance three in one, and I heard their whispering laughter — the Mother, the Maiden, the Crone."