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 Rig-Marie.Rig’dum Fun’nidos, 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Rigadoon.
 
A French figure-dance invented by Isaac Rig’adon.   1
       
“And Isaac’s Rigadoon shall live as long
As Raphael’s painting, or as Virgil’s song.”
       
Jenyns: Art of Dancing, canto ii.
 


 Rig-Marie.Rig’dum Fun’nidos, 

 
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