LL-L "Terminology" 2004.04.26 (01) [E]

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From: Brian Holton <ctbah at polyu.edu.hk>
Subject: LL-L "Terminology" 2004.04.25 (06) [E]

the Dictionary of the Older Scottish tongue (at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/)
gives this:
 A series of dance steps; a processional dance.  His cousing … Led the
dance … Sum trottit tras and trenas Sum balterit the bas; Colk. Sow i 300.
Thane com the ladyis danceing in ane trece [STS lxxxi, trace]; Dunb. (OUP)
147/26.  In the … secound mariage of King Alexander, quhen every man wes
ganging in the trais with his wife, dansing with al glaidnes that micht be
devisit; apperit [etc.]; Bell. Boece II 359.

I rend to agree with Ron that the trett/retrett pair must be movement
forward and back.

brian

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