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Castle walk
noun
- a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Castle walk1
Example Sentences
He will fly to County Louth, on Ireland’s east coast, on Wednesday to visit a cemetery, tour a castle, walk around downtown Dundalk and attend a community gathering.
After this ride, which is called the Forbidden Journey, you exit Hogwarts castle, walk past Hagrid's hut with Buckbeak sitting amidst some pumpkins and enter the town of Hogsmead.
He kicks a mean one-step, dances the Castle Walk.
By 1912, their dancing and their songs�the Castle Walk and the Maxixe �were sentimental favorites in the U.S. and Europe.
Irene Castle McLaughlin, who tripped her way to fame during World War I with such sprightly dances as the Maxixe and the Castle Walk, was completely out of sympathy with World War II's jitterbugging: "It's not dancing�it belongs to the realm of athletics . . . they look like a netful of fish."
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