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Showing posts with label Discotheque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discotheque. Show all posts
Friday, August 12, 2022

Discothèque dancing - 'you don't need a band' (1964)

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'you Frug, Surf and Watusi and you don't need a band - Discotheque Dancing.  As of last night, the smart dances to do were the Frug,...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Discotheque Dress for Party Dancing (1964)

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Previously we discussed how the word Discotheque, coined in France by the 1940s, seems to have entered the English language in the early 19...
Saturday, December 01, 2012

Discotheque enters the English language: 1960-66

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Thanks to Google news and other archive searches it is possible to date reasonably accurately when words came to be widely used, at least...
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