polonaise

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a woman's dress with a tight bodice and an overskirt drawn back to reveal a colorful underskirt

Borrowed from French polonaise (“Polish”).

The men began to choose partners and take their places for the polonaise. — War and Peace, Leo, graf Tolstoy
It was the picture of a young girl dressed in the fashion of a bygone day, with a tremendously long, full skirt bunched up into an elaborate "polonaise." — The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House, Hildegard G. Frey
In front of the throne-baldachin, itself a torn velvet arrangement, crowned with ostrich feathers and framed with gold fillets which would have been all the better for a touch-up, the procession divided as in a polonaise, and went through carefully prescribed evolutions. — Royal Highness, Thomas Mann

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