First couple
The pair of dancers nearest the music who, in most dances, take the lead and/or executes the figure first. The first couple may change if the dance is progressive, or another couple may lead subsequently.
Glossary
Glossary
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— AAccordion
- Ales
- Alternative
- Anglo Concertina
- Arch
- Armbands
- Attendants
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— BBalance
- Baldrics
- Baubles
- Beads
- Bell-pad/s
- Bell/s
- Belt/s
- Blakey's segs
- Blending
- Bodice
- Bonnet
- Bottom
- Braces
- Braid
- Branle
- Breeches
- Button Accordion
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— CCadging
- Call
- Captain
- Cast
- Ceremonial
- Choreography
- Circle
- Circle skirts
- Clog
- Coconut
- Colours -- sporting colours
- Competitions
- Concertina
- Convention
- Cotswolds (the)
- Courtly
- Cross-dressing
- Custom/s
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— DDisguise
- Disguising -- medieval term
- Doodling
- Double cast
- Down
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— EEmblem
- English Concertina
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— FFarandole
- Feathers
- Fiddle
- Figure
- First couple
- First Footing
- Folk festivals
- Fools stick
- Footwork
- Formal line
- Formation
- Friendly Societies
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— GGalliard
- Gallop
- Gansey
- Gathered
- Grotesque
- Guisers
- Guizers
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— HHandkerchiefs
- Hands across
- Hessian
- Hey
- Hobby horse/s
- Hoggers
- Honour
- Hood
- Hooden
- Hornpipe
- Horse brasses
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— IIconic
- Impromptu
- Informal line
- Ingenuity
- Inheritance
- Inside hands
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— JJig
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— KKilts
- Knickerbockers
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— LLace
- Lancers and Quadrilles
- Lead
- Lift
- Long sword
- Longways set
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— MMask/s
- Masques
- Medals
- Melodeon
- Military
- Mini-skirts
- Molly (the)
- Moors
- Moving arches
- Music hall
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— NNaturalistic
- Normal/normally
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— OOak Apple
- Oak Apple Day
- Obby Oss
- Occupational
- Old Tup
- One-two-three-hop
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— PPaisley
- Parti-coloured
- Participation
- Pavane
- Percussion
- Phrasing
- Pierrot
- Plough jags
- Plough Monday
- Polka
- Pom-poms
- Progressive
- Promenade
- Pumps
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— RRag jackets
- Rag/s
- Rapper Sword
- Reel
- Reindeer horns
- Revived
- Ribbon/s
- Ribboners
- Robin Hood
- Rosette/s
- Roud numbers
- Roundels
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— SSash/es
- Sean Nos
- Set dance
- Sicilian circle
- Signifies
- Single cast
- Skip-change
- Slip
- Smock/s
- Social
- Sole/s
- Standardised
- Star
- Stave/s
- Step Dance
- Step to partner
- Stepping
- Stereotypical
- Stick horse
- Subvert/ed
- Sunday best
- Swing
- Symbol/ Symbolic/ Symbolise
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— TThemed
- Ties
- Timing
- Tourney
- Transformative
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— UUniform
- Upper
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— VVariety shows
- Veil
- Velvet
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— WWaistcoat/s
- Waltz
- Welfare
- Whitsun
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— ZZouave
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