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Virginia reel   /vərdʒˈɪnjə ril/   Listen
noun
Reel  n.  A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; often called Scotch reel.
Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English "country dance," or contradance (contredanse).



Virginia  n.  One of the States of the United States of America.
Virginia cowslip (Bot.), the American lungwort (Mertensia Virginica).
Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; called also woodbine, and American ivy. (U. S.)
Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence.
Virginia nightingale (Zool.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal.
Virginia quail (Zool.), the bobwhite.
Virginia reel, an old English contradance; so called in the United States.
Virginia stock. (Bot.) See Mahon stock.






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"Virginia reel" Quotes from Famous Books



... evening, and here the captains distinguished themselves. Seth Wingate and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Obed Nickerson came in, as did several other retired mariners and their better-halves. Obed brought his fiddle and sat in the corner and played the music for a Virginia reel, and Ralph laughed until he choked to see Captain Jerry—half of his shirt-collar torn loose from the button and flapping like a sail—convoy stout Mrs. Wingate from one end of the line to the other, throwing ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... But just the old-fashioned Virginia reel. We had cider and apples and cake and pie for our treat and we went home at ten o'clock! David walked home with me in the moonlight and I guess we liked each other from the first. We were married the next year, then we both ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers



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