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schottische

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Pronunciation
/ʃɒˈtiːʃ/
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/ʃɒˈtiːʃ/ · /ʃəˈtiːʃ/ · /ˈʃɑːdɪʃ/

Definition of schottische

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of French origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
    “The aim of whose existence appears to be that of rattling through the polka or schottische with the velocity of a spinning jenny.”
    “[…] this abominable German usage we have imported—the polka and the schottish too […]”
    “[…] I could never dare to face Madame Mélanie Duval, or the Semiramis of dancing mistresses, Madame Michau Adelaide—study the fashionable steps in secret, and then burst upon the world as an adept in the Schottische, the Cellarius, and the Deux Temps?”
    “The ‘Polka tremblante’, or Schottisch, is also a Bohemian national dance, and was brought out in Paris by Cellarius in 1844.”
    “[…] the Schottische is very seldom danced now in its original form[…]”
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noun

  1. A partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of French origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
    “The aim of whose existence appears to be that of rattling through the polka or schottische with the velocity of a spinning jenny.”
    “[…] this abominable German usage we have imported—the polka and the schottish too […]”
    “[…] I could never dare to face Madame Mélanie Duval, or the Semiramis of dancing mistresses, Madame Michau Adelaide—study the fashionable steps in secret, and then burst upon the world as an adept in the Schottische, the Cellarius, and the Deux Temps?”
    “The ‘Polka tremblante’, or Schottisch, is also a Bohemian national dance, and was brought out in Paris by Cellarius in 1844.”
    “[…] the Schottische is very seldom danced now in its original form[…]”
  2. Music for the schottische.

verb

  1. (intransitive)To dance a schottische.
    “I could only schottische a little.”
    “I polked and schottisched with a step peculiar to myself—and the kangaroo.”

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Etymology

From French Schottische bohème, from German schottische (“Scottish”), from German Schotte (“a Scot”). First attested in 1849. For the pronunciation, the Oxford English Dictionary comments that the "quasi-French pronunciation […]…

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From French Schottische bohème, from German schottische (“Scottish”), from German Schotte (“a Scot”). First attested in 1849. For the pronunciation, the Oxford English Dictionary comments that the "quasi-French pronunciation […] has no justification". The Oxford Companion to Music (2002 edition) notes that this dance was first introduced to England as the German polka, but it was then superseded by a version known as the Schottische bohème or polka tremblante which appeared in Paris in the 1840s.

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