fan dance

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fan dance

noun fan dances · fan-dance

  1. A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans. Gracefully he led the fan dance, and glided without a pause into the shadow dance and the umbrella dance.
  2. A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing with large hand-held fans that are alternately used to conceal and provide glimpses of her erogenous body regions. Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers.
  3. broadly, figuratively, idiomatic The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information. In what may be the most farcical episode of an 18-month-long fan dance, baseball players and ownership will sit down Monday in Los Angeles to discuss "non-economic issues" regarding the expired collective bargaining agreement.

    Similar: dance of the seven veils

verb fan dances · fan dancing · fan danced · fan-dance

  1. To perform such a dance.

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@misc{fan_dance_2026,
  title = {fan dance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fan%20dance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}