lancers
Cavalry with spears
Lancers is a 19th-century square dance for four or more couples, performed in five figures with specific formations.
The name comes from the military cavalry soldiers who carried lances, though the connection to the dance is largely stylistic.
They learned the lancers for the period ball.
The singular lancer refers to a mounted soldier armed with a lance.
Cost or accusation
- sabersCurved cavalry blades
- hussarsFast-moving mounted soldiers
- uhlanLance-bearing cavalry soldier
- cuirassiersArmored cavalry troops
dragoons · mounted · squadron · regiment · brigade · gallop · troopers · cavaliers
Of the Middle Ages
- knighthoodHonorary title of nobility
- chivalryKnightly code of honor
- joustingMounted knightly combat sport
- tournamentMulti-round competitive event
armour · heraldry · feudalism · nobility · squire · vassalage · man-at-arms · chainmail
Pole with sharp point
- pikeLong battlefield spear
- polearmLong-shafted combat weapon
- pennonMedieval lance-mounted flag
- couchedExpressed in specific terms
thrust · shaft · point · halberd · javelin · sabre · bayonet · cavalry sword
Square dance for eight
- square danceChoreographed folk gathering
- cotillionFormal society dance event
- figuresNumerical values or forms
- setsGrouped items together
couples · ballroom · Victorian · promenade · contra dance · folk dance
charge
Cost or accusation
cuirassiers · dragoons · mounted · squadron · regiment · brigade · gallop · troopers · cavaliers · reconnaissance
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
- knighthoodHonorary title of nobility
- chivalryKnightly code of honor
- joustingMounted knightly combat sport
tournament · armour · heraldry · feudalism · nobility · squire · vassalage · man-at-arms · chainmail · pikemen
spear
Pole with sharp point
couched · thrust · shaft · point · halberd · javelin · sabre · bayonet · cavalry sword
quadrille
Square dance for eight
- square danceChoreographed folk gathering
- cotillionFormal society dance event
- figuresNumerical values or forms
sets · couples · ballroom · Victorian · promenade · contra dance · folk dance
parade
Ceremonial public procession
- uniformsStandardized institutional clothing
- plumesShowy feathers or rising columns
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
pageantry · procession · fanfare · drill · presentation · tassels · medals · honors · insignia · spectacle
polo
Mounted mallet sport
- equestrianRelating to horsemanship
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
- mascotGroup's symbolic figure
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- soldiersinfantryman, private, grenadier, grenadiers, fusilier
- historical warfaremusket, bayonet, cannon, flintlock, cavalry
- cavalrycavalry, cavalryman, cavalry brigade, cavalry charges, cavalry officer
- folk dancessquare dances, jig, square dance, polka, line dance
- French militaryFrench Foreign Legion, French Army, legionnaires, chasseurs, gendarme
lancersarchers
People who shoot bows
musketeers · bowmen · riflemen · crossbowmen · gunners
lancersarchers
People who shoot bows
artillery · bombardiers · skirmishers · sharpshooters · snipers
lancersinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · pikemen · hoplites · legionaries · spearmen
- lance corporalLowest NCO grade
- Lance Armstrong
- Lance Bass
- Mitsubishi LancerJapanese compact sedan
- fire lanceEarly gunpowder weapon