Definitions for rigadoon

rigadoon rig·a·doon

Spelling: [rig-uh-doon]
IPA: /ˌrɪg əˈdun/

Rigadoon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 299 anagrams from letters in rigadoon (adginoor).

Definitions for rigadoon

noun

  1. a lively dance, formerly popular, for one couple, characterized by a jumping step and usually in quick duple meter.
  2. a piece of music for this dance or in its rhythm.

Origin of rigadoon

1685-95; French rigaudon, perhaps from name Rigaud

Examples for rigadoon

And the Doctor looked as if he should like to rigadoon and sashy across as well as the young one he was talkin' about.

She would dance you a rigadoon or cut a pigeon's wing for you very respectably.

Arm in arm, their sabots clogging, they did a rigadoon down the winding road.

The dance itself is nothing; it might as well be called a rigadoon or a Sailor's Hornpipe, so far as the steps go.

To build a city he had only to play a rigadoon and a minuet; but the other hero destroyed them by the sound of rams' horns.

Word Value for rigadoon
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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