ALL meanings of dance of death
dance of death
D d - noun dance of death a pictorial, literary, or musical representation, current esp in the Middle Ages, of a dance in which living people, in order of social precedence, are led off to their graves, by a personification of death 3
- noun dance of death a symbolic portrayal, esp. in medieval art, of Death whirling persons away in dance as each dies 3
- noun dance of death a symbolic dance in which Death, represented as a skeleton, leads people or skeletons to their grave. 1
- noun dance of death a representation of this theme in art. 1
- noun dance of death Alternative term for danse macabre. 0