rain dance

English

Noun

rain dance (plural rain dances)

A ceremonial dance intended to provoke rain.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 180:
  The women stripped naked and took part in a rain-dance, a girl being chosen for the sacrificial victim.
(by extension) Any sequence of arbitrary actions performed in order to achieve a goal.

Translations

ceremonial dance intended to provoke rain

Finnish: sadetanssi (fi)
French: danse de la pluie (fr) f
German: Regentanz m
Hungarian: esőtánc
Portuguese: dança da chuva f
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

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