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dancen
dancen
English
Verb
dancen
- (obsolete) plural simple present form of dance
- a. 1561, The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly
- Holly and his merry men, they dancen and they sing;
- Ivy and her maidens, they weepen and they wring.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
- Whereto they dauncen eche one with his mayd.
- 1633, Phineas Fletcher, Eclogue I. Amyntas.
- Here to my pipe they dancen on a row:
- a. 1561, The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly