schottische

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French Schottische bohème, from German schottische (“Scottish”),[1] from German Schotte (“a Scot”).[2] First attested in 1849. For the pronunciation, the Oxford English Dictionary comments that the "quasi-French pronunciation […] has no justification".

The Oxford Companion to Music (2002 edition) notes that this dance was first introduced to England as the German polka, but it was then superseded by a version known as the Schottische bohème or polka tremblante which appeared in Paris in the 1840s.

Pronunciation

Noun

schottische (plural schottisches)

  1. (countable) A partnered country dance resembling a slow polka, probably of French origin, first introduced in England in 1848.
    • 1849 [1848 July 9], Theatrical Programme:
      The aim of whose existence appears to be that of rattling through the polka or schottische with the velocity of a spinning jenny.
    • 1855, John Esten Cooke, Ellie: or the Human Comedy, Richmond: A. Morris, page 151:
      […] this abominable German usage we have imported—the polka and the schottish too […]
    • 1859, George Augustus Sala, Twice Round the Clock […], London: Houlston and Wright, Paternoster Row, page 280:
      […] I could never dare to face Madame Mélanie Duval, or the Semiramis of dancing mistresses, Madame Michau Adelaide—study the fashionable steps in secret, and then burst upon the world as an adept in the Schottische, the Cellarius, and the Deux Temps?
    • 1862 January 25, The Athenæum […], page 111, column 3:
      The ‘Polka tremblante’, or Schottisch, is also a Bohemian national dance, and was brought out in Paris by Cellarius in 1844.
    • 1892, Edward Scott, Dancing as an Art and Pastime, London: George Bell and Sons […], page 168:
      […] the Schottische is very seldom danced now in its original form […]
    • 1950 [1945], Astrid Lindgren, “Pippi Entertains Two Burglars”, in Pippi Longstocking, The Viking Press, translation of Pippi Långstrump, →ISBN, page 107; republished by Puffin Books, published 2013:
      It so happened that Pippi was learning to dance the shottische[sic], and she didn't want to go to bed until she was sure she could do it.
  2. (uncountable) Music for the schottische.

Derived terms

  • Highland Schottische
  • Balmoral Schottische
  • Military Schottische

Translations

Verb

schottische (third-person singular simple present schottisches, present participle schottisching, simple past and past participle schottisched)

  1. (intransitive) To dance a schottische.
    • 1865 September 10, Oliver Willcox Norton, Army Letters: 1861-1865 […], "Ringgold Barracks, Texas", page 277:
      I could only schottische a little.
    • 1872, Mark Twain, The Innocents at Home, London: George Routledge and Sons, page 89:
      I polked and schottisched with a step peculiar to myself—and the kangaroo.

References

  1. ^ Alison Latham, editor (2002), “Schottische”, in The Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1118
  2. ^ William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “schottische”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

schottische

  1. inflection of schottisch:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
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