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dance of death

noun

  1. a symbolic dance in which Death, represented as a skeleton, leads people or skeletons to their grave.
  2. a representation of this theme in art.

dance of death

noun

  1. a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death Also called (French)danse macabre
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dance of death1

First recorded in 1470–80

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