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Two-step   /tu-stɛp/   Listen
Two-step

noun
1.
A ballroom dance in duple meter; marked by sliding steps.






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"Two-step" Quotes from Famous Books



... men" circled hither and thither in the maze of the stately waltz and the festal two-step, and the dainty slippers kept graceful time with the strains of the exceptionally fine music of the hour. Lovely young women, with roses in their cheeks and their hair, caught the reflection of the radiant electric lights and the glory ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... his well-shaped head in something of a whirl. In another minute he was off with Miss Avery upon a gallant two-step. ...
— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... wouldn't it make you sore To see the poet, when the goods play out, Crawl off of poor old Pegasus and tout His skate to two-step sonnets off galore? Then, when the plug, a dead one, can no more Shake rag-time than a biscuit, right about The poem-butcher turns with gleeful shout And sends a batch of sonnets ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum • Wallace Irwin

... ought to Lick the Children, and so on. But the Family that lived Next Door made Loud Sport of Mr. Bizzy, and had no use for his Counsel. They played Authors right in the Front Room with the Curtains up, and they Danced the Two-Step so that he could be sure to see it from where he was hidden behind the Evergreen Tree, and they ran the Ice-Cream Freezer on Sunday Morning, and sang College ...
— More Fables • George Ade

... think, Mrs. Howard," he said with careless sangfroid, and he whirled her away into the middle of the room. They both were perfect dancers and never stopped in their wild career until the music ended. It was a two-step, and all the young people clapped for the band to go on. So once more they started with the throng. They had not spoken a single word; it was a strange comfort to them just to be together—half anguish, half bliss—but as the last bars died away, ...
— The Man and the Moment • Elinor Glyn



Words linked to "Two-step" :   trip the light fantastic toe, ballroom dancing, trip the light fantastic, ballroom dance, dance



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