A morris dance is an English folk dance with bells and sticks. Watch a morris dance.
The bells are strapped to the shins and the sticks are struck in time. A morris dance belongs to a particular village tradition, and the steps differ from one to the next.
1nounmorris danceAn English folk dance with bells and sticks.
“The morris dance outside the pub stopped the traffic.”
morris dance is a dance.
Thought to be Moorish dance; the German Moriskentanz is a cognate.
Thought to be from Moorish + dance. The German Moriskentanz is a cognate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Dance