Lambeth Walk

noun

: a jaunty ballroom dance combining a strutting march with figures resembling those of a square dance

Word History

Etymology

from Lambeth Walk (1937), song by Douglas Furber †1961 British author and Noel Gay †1954 British musician, from Lambeth Walk, a street in London, England

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