Ball (dance)
dance party
A ball is a formal dance occasion. By formal is meant: people were invited, wore their best clothes ('evening attire'), and the ball was held in a splendid ballroom. In former times everyone danced, but only the wealthy went to balls. Girls had dance cards: men had to sign up to dance with them. Older people sat around the sides and watched the younger people dance. It was a society occasion.
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A ball at Apsley House. Shows King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra dancing a quadrille, 1908. -
Ball at Eglington Castle 1839 -
Almack's Assembly Rooms, London, about 1820. -
Mardi Gras Ball, 1930s -
Wedding ball of the Duc de Joyeause, 1581. Attributed to Herman van der Mast. -
Sheet music cover -
Bal de Tarda by Ramon Casas i Carbó, 1896 -
by William Hogarth, 1745 -
Palacio San Martín, Buenos Aires -
Ballroom of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto -
Ballroom of the Canals family mansion, Tarragona -
The ballroom of the Catherine Palace, near St Petersburg
