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Terpsichore

noun

(Greek mythology) the Muse of the dance and of choral song.

Taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music. Synonyms: dance, dancing, saltation.

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"Terpsichore" Quotes from Famous Books

... cease to lament it as a hardship. The continual exercise of the guns was invariably followed up by a general wish that they might fall in with an enemy of equal force, to ascertain whether such constant drilling had been thrown away upon them. The Terpsichore received supplies of provisions and water from other ships, and for nine ...

— Newton Forster - The Merchant Service • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Terpsichore ne'er danced so well! Can all the Graces in thee dwell? My soul was raised to such a height ...

— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles

... clothes, if they choose, and unmasked. Dancing appears to be the whole and sole motive of the guests, and dance they do, with a vivacity and untiring spirit that could only be found in a land so especially devoted to the worship of Terpsichore as France. In all the ball rooms parties of the Municipal Guard are in attendance to preserve order, and should any of the guests transgress the ordinary rules of decorum, they are immediately consigned to the lock-up of the nearest ...

— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head

... half-drunken gravity; "he's got to come back. We can't afford to lose him this early. And he can't afford to lose us. The best life of this glorious commonwealth is as yet a sealed book to him. It is our sacred duty, gentlemen, to break those seals. What does he know of our temples of Terpsichore? Our altars to the gods of chance? ...

— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

... many-twinkling feet! whose charms Are now extended up from legs to arms; Terpsichore!—too long misdeem'd a maid— Reproachful term—bestow'd but to upbraid— Henceforth in all the bronze of brightness shine, The least a vestal of the virgin Nine. Far be from thee and thine the name of prude; Mock'd, yet triumphant; sneer'd at, unsubdued; Thy legs must move to conquer as they fly, ...

— English Satires • Various