DCHP-3

dancing ground

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a well-worn patch of elevated prairie where prairie chickens habitually congregate for their mating ritual or dance.

See: dance hall(def. 3)

Quotations

1958
Good dancing grounds are often almost bare of grass. . . . Finding a dancing ground in good sharptail country is not difficult, and the experience of watching a dance . . . will more than repay the observer for very early rising.