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Definition of Farandoles
1. farandole [n] - See also: farandole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farandoles
Literary usage of Farandoles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1845)
"The federalists, who first arrived, began to dance farandoles; those who followed
joined them, forming a round which soon embraced part of the Champ de Mars ..."
2. The Reds of the Midi: an episode of the French revolution; tr. from the by Félix Gras (1896)
"... will there be farandoles at the Guillotine Feast?" asked Clairet one day. ...
yes, fine farandoles," said ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1850)
"... dances, promenades, and farandoles^ in any public places (voies publiques),
with or without colours or music, are prohibited, by day or by night, ..."
4. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard (1910)
"... where strangers took oaths of brotherhood : all these were like so many
farandoles,1 tending to confound themselves in one gigantic general farandole ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The federates who arrived first began to dance farandoles ; those who followed
joined them, and formed a circle which soon enclosed part of the ..."
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