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Found an interesting intellectual connection to Cowboy Bebop's "Heavy Metal Queen" today in the Oxford English Dictionary... discovery inspired by ctiee...;)
TERPSICHORE
The Muse of dancing; hence, a female dancer; dancing as an art.
1711: SHAFTESBURY Charac. (1737) I. 317 The Thalia's, the Polyhymnia's, the Terpsychore's, the Euterpe's willingly join their parts.
1756-7: tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 427 Stranger, approach, behold this homely chair, Which e'en Terpsichore herself might chuse.
1906: 19th Cent. Mar. 457 We should lament the death of Terpsichore.
Hence terpsichorean a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of dancing; saltatory. So terpsicho real a. (rare) in same sense; hence terpsicho really adv., by means of dancing.
1869 Daily News 19 May, The loving couples..hold themselves aloof from the busy hum, or mix in it for *terpsichoreal or restorative purposes only.
1900 Ibid. 12 Mar. 8/4 A poem, ‘Voltigia’, which poem the ‘Tenth Muse’ condescends to interpret *terpsichoreally.
1825 T. HOOK Sayings Ser. II. Sutherl. (Colburn) 26 She had seen their *Terpsichorean evolutions.
1865 DICKENS Mut. Fr. I. xi, An entirely new view of the Terpsichorean art.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 98 Sometimes a series of co~ordinated gestures and movements [in hysterical persons] constitute a regular terpsichorean display.
TERPSICHORE
The Muse of dancing; hence, a female dancer; dancing as an art.
1711: SHAFTESBURY Charac. (1737) I. 317 The Thalia's, the Polyhymnia's, the Terpsychore's, the Euterpe's willingly join their parts.
1756-7: tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 427 Stranger, approach, behold this homely chair, Which e'en Terpsichore herself might chuse.
1906: 19th Cent. Mar. 457 We should lament the death of Terpsichore.
Hence terpsichorean a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of dancing; saltatory. So terpsicho real a. (rare) in same sense; hence terpsicho really adv., by means of dancing.
1869 Daily News 19 May, The loving couples..hold themselves aloof from the busy hum, or mix in it for *terpsichoreal or restorative purposes only.
1900 Ibid. 12 Mar. 8/4 A poem, ‘Voltigia’, which poem the ‘Tenth Muse’ condescends to interpret *terpsichoreally.
1825 T. HOOK Sayings Ser. II. Sutherl. (Colburn) 26 She had seen their *Terpsichorean evolutions.
1865 DICKENS Mut. Fr. I. xi, An entirely new view of the Terpsichorean art.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 98 Sometimes a series of co~ordinated gestures and movements [in hysterical persons] constitute a regular terpsichorean display.