Morris-Dance is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 1735 anagrams from letters in morris-dance (-acdeimnorrs).
1425-75; late Middle English moreys daunce Moorish dance; see Moorish
The morris dance (fig. 50) shows us the development that had taken place since the fourteenth century.
Then there was a morris dance, with tabor and pipe, the dancers wearing purple scarfs and half-shirts.
The morris dance is essentially a manifestation of vigour rather than of grace.
It was an old English dance, called a "morris dance," with a lilt and a tilt which set all feet a-going.
But the morris dance—it was the dances that Kingston would spend money upon.
To-day, the morris dance is completely self-conscious, stiff, and ugly.
This is probably true of all country dances: it is pre-eminently true of the morris dance.
The lads and lassies sang carols, played at such games as kiss-in-the-ring, and danced the morris dance.
The morris dance, in short, is a perfect expression in rhythm and movement of the English character.
The tantara changes to a graceful and yet hilarious dance chorus, “A morris dance must you entrance,” sung fortissimo.
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