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Quickstep

noun

Military march accompanying quick time.

A ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps.

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"Quickstep" Quotes from Famous Books

... said, "I jess can't git use't to de Yankee Doodle quickstep nohow. At Miss Perkinses dey wasn't partic'lar ef things ...

— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes

... General whistled a quickstep, and Douglas walked up and down the .room in a pitiable state of mind, guessing pretty much what was passing in the mind of his friend, and fully sensible that it must be of a severer nature than anything he could yet allow himself to think of ...

— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

... band played tonight. father made me go to bed at nine but i cood hear it becaus my window is jest acros the road. they are playing a new peace. it is the woodup quickstep, they say Ned Kendall cood play it on a bugle better than ennybody. old Robinson cood and Mister Ashman can play ...

— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute

... began, And pour'd thick thunders on Hesperia's van, Forced in her dexter guards, that skirmisht wide To prove what powers the forest hills might hide; They break, fall back, with measured quickstep tread, Form close, and flank the solid squares they led. Now roll, with kindling haste, the long stark lines, From wing to wing the sounding battle joins; Batteries and field-parks and platoons of fire, In mingled shocks their roaring blasts exspire. ...

— The Columbiad • Joel Barlow

... a few seconds, the camera held on the massed troops, then it centered on the reviewing stand. The band modulated smoothly into a brilliant quickstep and a column of guards marched to center screen, the colors of their dress uniforms contrasting with the green of ...

— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole

Words linked to "Quickstep" : military music, ballroom dance, military march, trip the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, ballroom dancing, dance, martial music