ballroom
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ballroom (plural ballrooms)
- A large room used for dancing and banquets.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
- A type of elegant dance.
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large room used for dancing
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type of elegant dance
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ballroom (third-person singular simple present ballrooms, present participle ballrooming, simple past and past participle ballroomed)
- (intransitive) To take part in ballroom dancing.
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