stubenmad'l

Updated: July 7, 2026

Strange to say, the intoxicating waltz is gone out of vogue with the humbler classes of Vienna, its natal soil. Quadrilles, mazurkas, and other exotics, are now danced by every "Stubenmad'l" in Lerchenfeld, to the exclusion of the national dance. On the third day after this, at the appointed hour, I waited upon Prince Metternich.

A. A. (Andrew Archibald) Paton - Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family : or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.