flatfooting
English edit
Verb edit
flatfooting
- present participle and gerund of flatfoot
Noun edit
flatfooting (uncountable)
- A traditional form of clogging danced in Appalachia.
- 1995, Susan Eike Spalding, Jane Harris Woodside, Communities in Motion:
- Although square dancing is popular in the Coalfields of Kentucky, flatfooting, or "dancing" is currently the only old-time dancing in Dante.
- 1998, Selma Jeanne Cohen, International encyclopedia of dance:
- Solo dancing (outside the context of the big circle dance) is known in various places as buck dance, flatfooting, hoe-down, jigging, sure-footing, and/or stepping.
- 2003, The Old-time Herald: A Magazine Dedicated to Old-time Music:
- Evenings offer dances, flatfooting workshops, films, jam sessions, and slow jams for beginners.