war dance

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war dance (plural war dances)

  1. (anthropology) A ceremonial dance performed before a major battle or after a victory, usually by a tribe.
    • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 20:
      There was a greyness in the east by the time we had completed the Navajo war dance on the front lawn.

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