Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably …

Ambrose Bierce
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Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.39, 谷月社
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