mazurka

Examples

• All

• The spirit of the mazurka is very hard to capture, and Rosina spent many hours with me trying to transmit its characteristics.

  Academic text (1996)

• If you won't promise to marry me, will you dance the mazurka with me?

  Anna Karenina (1935)

• Is your card free for the mazurka?

  Anna Karenina (1997)

• He'll dance the mazurka with Kitty.

  Anna Karenina (2012)

• Kitty, will you dance the mazurka with me?

  Anna Karenina (1935)

• Won't you dance the mazurka with me?

  Anna Karenina (1935)

• Other musical selections, such as the redowa, shotis, and mazurka, continued to be played, but less frequently.

  Academic text (1999)

• She showed her old photos and played Chopin mazurkas for her.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The tango did not exist yet, and the wealthy still danced rigadoons, mazurkas, lancers, and minuets.

  Fiction book (1993)

• At the wedding, everyone joined together to celebrate by dancing the mazurka in a lively circle.

How Lively

to jitterbug

• Archaic

3 8.7

to polka

1 6.7

mazurka

2 9.9

waltz

17 2.8

minuet

5 9.0

Surface Forms

Etymology