2) macabre. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...2. Constituting or including a representation of death. Ultimately from Old French (Danse) Macabre, (dance) of death, perhaps alteration of Macabe, Maccabee, from...

3) Death, Dance of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Death, Dance of, or danse macabre (dans mka´br, -br, dans) (KEY) , originally a 14th-century morality poem. The poem was a dialogue between Death and representatives...

4) Saint-Saens, Charles Camille. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...French composer whose works include symphonies, operas, and symphonic poems, including Danse Macabre (1874)....

5) 9102. Wole Soyinka. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I ve been doing nothing but the danse macabre in this political jungle of ours. ATTRIBUTION: On his play A Dance...

6) 840. Amusement. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...masquerade, masquerade ball, cornwallis [U. S.]; mistletoe-bough dance; Dance of Death, danse macabre [F.]; interpretative dance, step dance, sand dance, pas seul...

7) Saint-Saens, Charles Camille. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...minor (1868) and C minor (1875); and symphonic poems, notably Le Rouet d'Omphale (1872) and Danse macabre (1874). His works are marked by unfailing craftsmanship...

8) §10. Opposition of the Clergy to secular entertainments. I. The Origins of English Drama. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of his age he showed a strong dramatic instinct, 14 makes no mention of players in his poem Danse Macabre, while among the representatives of divers classes of men...

9) §3. Fraternities, orders and dances of death. V. The Progress of Social Literature in Tudor Times. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...jigge or masquerade, which seems to have been a common practice since the performance of a danse macabre in the Parisian cemetery of the Innocents in 1424. The subject...

10) V. The Progress of Social Literature in Tudor Times: Bibliography. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...1, p. 81. (1) French Dances of Death La dāse macabre. Guy Marchant. 1485. Danse macabre des femmes et le debat du corps et de lame. Guyot Marchant. 1468. Cy...