rain dance

English

A rain dance being performed in the Philippines

Noun

rain dance (plural rain dances)

1. A ceremonial dance intended to provoke rain.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 180:

     The women stripped naked and took part in a rain-dance, a girl being chosen for the sacrificial victim.

2. (by extension) Any sequence of arbitrary actions performed in order to achieve a goal.

Translations

ceremonial dance intended to provoke rain

• Finnish: sadetanssi (fi)
• French: danse de la pluie (fr) f
• German: Regentanz m
• Hungarian: esőtánc
• Portuguese: dança da chuva f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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