Meaning

2 senses
  1. A lively masked and costumed dance associated with some sects of Tibetan Buddhism, often offering moral instruction relating to compassion for sentient beings.

  2. An Apache dance in which dancers take the role of mountain spirits, intended to protect against disease and enemies.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. When the flatterer pipes, then the devil dances.

Forms

plural: devil dances
Singulardevil dance
Pluraldevil dances

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

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