crane-dance

Updated: May 27, 2025

The tongs-dance, the crane-dance, and others I pass over because they are alien to my subject; similarly, if I have said nothing of the Phrygian dance, that riotous convivial fling, which was performed by energetic yokels to the piping of a flute-girl, and which still prevails in country districts, I have omitted it not from ignorance, but because it has no connexion with the Pantomime of to-day.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

At the pounding stick. At the relapse. At jack and the box. At jog breech, or prick him At the queens. forward. At the trades. At knockpate. At heads and points. At the vine-tree hug. At the crane-dance. At black be thy fall. At slash and cut. At ho the distaff. At bobbing, or flirt on the At Joan Thomson. nose. At the bolting cloth. At the larks. At the oat's seed. At fillipping.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1