schottische

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun music performed for dancing the schottische
  2. noun a German round dance resembling a slow polka

Etymology

From French Schottische bohème, from German schottische (“Scottish”), from German Schotte (“a Scot”). First attested in 1849. For the pronunciation, the Oxford English Dictionary comments that the "quasi-French pronunciation […] has no justification". The Oxford Companion to Music (2002 edition) notes that this dance was first introduced to England as the German polka, but it was then superseded by a version known as the Schottische bohème or polka tremblante which appeared in Paris in the 1840s.

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