dance card

noun

1
: a card listing partners for scheduled dances
2
: a calendar of engagements

Examples of dance card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nicole Kidman, Birth (2004) Kidman, crowned with an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf with a parrot’s beak for a nose in The Hours (2002), has often kept her dance card filled with smaller, offbeat movies that don’t necessarily click with audiences. Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024 But even with his busy dance card, he’s still found ways to embrace challenges that are outside his comfort zone. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024 Normally, Broadway dominates my dance card on short trips to New York. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023 His days playing Aquaman may very well be over, but Jason Momoa isn’t exactly desperate to add more to his dance card. Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dance card 

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Word History

First Known Use

1895, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of dance card was in 1895

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“Dance card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dance%20card. Accessed 14 Jul. 2024.

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