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éDz

[ ey-koh-seyz, -kuh- ]

noun

  1. a country-dance in quick duple meter.


éDz

/ ˌeɪkɒˈseɪz; ekɔsɛz /

noun

  1. a lively dance in two-four time
  2. the tune for such a dance
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of éDz1

1860–65; < French, feminine of éDz Scottish, equivalent to ÉDz Scotland + -ais -ese; translation of German schottisch
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of éDz1

C19: French, literally: Scottish (dance)
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Miss Brown gave me Beethoven’s Ecossaise in G, which, strangely, had chords not unlike the Joplin rags.

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It sounds so pretty in French, p’tit morceau de merde éDz.

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One possible explanation is that their forefathers include a unit of Scottish soldiers - the Garde Ecossaise - who served the French King, Francis I, and were defeated with him at the Battle of Pavia, near Milan, in February 1525.

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On Tuesday, Giacometti's "Diego en chemise ecossaise" sold for $32.6 million, a record for a painting by the artist, and several of the top lots went to Asian clients.

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You are a French actress, born in Genoa on the seventeenth of September, 1772, and you made your first appearance on the stage in L'Ecossaise in 1788.

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