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Jig
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a vigorous dance popular in the old Northwest.
See: Red River jig
Quotations
1908
No sooner was the fiddler heard lowering his strings for the time-honoured "Jig" than eyes brightened, and feet began to beat the floor . . . The dance itself is nothing . . . so far as steps go. The tune is everything; Did it come from Normandy, the ancestral home of so many French Canadians and of French Canadian song? Or did some lonely inspired voyageur on the banks of the Red River [compose it]?
1929
. . . he still upon occasion shuffles a lively toe in "The Jig."