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Definition of Dance of death
1. Noun. A medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dance Of Death
Literary usage of Dance of death
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"... executed with great skill and fidelity, in conjunction with Bonner, the
facsimiles of Holbein's ' Dance of Death,' published by Francis Douce in 1833. ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"THE dance of death In a letter to Morritt, October 2, 1815, Scott writes, 'Out
of my Field of Waterloo has sprung an odd, wild sort of thing, which I intend ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The Dance of Death was painted on the walls and windows of churches, ... The Dance
of Death was also represented on the stage; at least two cases arc well ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1846)
"The Dance of Death, as must be well known to most of your readers, was a very
favourite subject during the 14th and 15th centuries, and the earliest ..."
5. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Most of the representations of the Dance of Death were accompanied by descriptive
or moral verses in different languages." Paintings of the ' Dance of Death ..."
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