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MOR'RICE

MOR'RIS

MOR'RIS-DANCE, n. A moorish dance; a dance in imitation of the Moors, as sarabands, chacons, _c. usually performed with castanets, tambours, _c. by young men in their shirts, with bells at their feet and ribbons of various colors tied round their arms and flung across their shoulders.

Nine men's morrice, a kind or play with nine holes in the ground.

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