danse macabre

1. 1.

   a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave

   Synonymsdance of death

   Broaderritual dancing

Questions about danse macabre

What does danse macabre mean?

danse macabre means "a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave".

What is another word for danse macabre?

Close synonyms include dance of death. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is danse macabre a common word?

danse macabre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.