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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1†
a building used for public dancing.
In frontier times, usually a place of entertainment where gambling, drinking, and more fleshly pleasures were available.
Quotations
1898
In relation to the dance halls, they would be classed as one of the conditions in vogue in mining camp life, and will not be molested, provided that there is no indecent exposure of person by the girl occupants, and strict order maintained without noise or vulgarity.
1921
Instead of lurching into the dance hall and blazing away at the ceiling, picture the "old-timer," the hardened miner of a hundred camps, planking down his pistols on the counter of the pawnshop and asking "How much?"
1958
The proposed change would put premises used for teen dances, "controlled by a responsible organization that has been approved by city commissioners," outside the classification of "dance hall."
2
among Indians and Eskimos, a large structure where communal dancing is performed.
See: dance house
Quotations
1936
. . . behind the pow-wow house, or dance-hall, was a long birch-bark structure, surmounted with a white cross and a white flag.
3
an area where prairie chicken perform mating dances.
See: dancing ground
Quotations
1959
The prairie chicken have four "dance halls" on Moore's place. He has approached within 30 yards to watch the annual rites.