pigeonwing

(ˈpɪdʒɪnˌwɪŋ)

(Dancing) chiefly US a fancy step in dancing in which the feet are clapped together

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pi•geon•wing

(ˈpɪdʒ ənˌwɪŋ)

n.

1. a fancy figure in skating.

2. a fancy step in dancing.

[1775–85]

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Edward Armstrong, the beau ideal of river society, who played the violin and wrote poems, and danced a perfect double pigeonwing, and raised thoroughbred horses in his stables and South-down sheep along his broad meadows