six-hands-round

Updated: January 10, 2026

"Come, come, you women-folk; 'tis hands across come, come!" said the tranter; and the conversation ceased for the present. Dick had at length secured Fancy for that most delightful of country-dances, opening with six-hands-round.

Thomas Hardy - Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school