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dance hall

• 1 †  a building used for public dancing.

  • In frontier times, usually a place of entertainment where gambling, drinking, and more fleshly pleasures were available.

• 2 among Indians and Eskimos, a large structure where communal dancing is performed.

  See also: dance house  

• 3 an area where prairie chicken perform mating dances.

  See also: dancing ground