_:vb6940221 "(now, archaic) A dance. [from 15th c.]"@en . _:vb6940222 . "3.2" . _:vb6940223 . _:vb6940223 "1922, Michael Arlen, \u201C2/2/2\u201D, in \u201CPiracy\u201D: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days\u200E[1]:"@en . . _:vb6940221 . _:vb6940223 "They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America."@en . _:vb6940222 "He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,\u2014 / \"Now tread we a measure!\" said young Lochinvar."@en . _:vb6940222 "1808 February 21, Walter Scott, \u201CCanto Fifth. The Court.\u201D, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: [\u2026] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company,\u00A0[\u2026]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, \u2192OCLC, stanza XII (Lochinvar. Lady Heron\u2019s Song.), page 259:"@en .