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LANCERS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lancers mean?
• LANCERS (noun)
The noun LANCERS has 1 sense:
1. a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples
Familiarity information: LANCERS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quadrille for 8 or 16 couples
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lancers" is a kind of...):
quadrille (a square dance of 5 or more figures for 4 or more couples)
Context examples
And I have one hundred archers and a score of lancers, but there are two hundred men who wait for me on this side of the water upon the borders of Navarre.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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