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• Dance Macabre (film) — Dance Macabre Directed by Greydon Clark Produced by Menahem Golan Written by Greydon Clark Starring …   Wikipedia

• dance macabre — dance of death (suggestive of the allegorical dance of death in which a skeleton representing Death leads people to the grave) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Dance macabre — …   Википедия

• macabre — [ makabr ] adj. • danse macabre, danse MacabréXIVe; probablt d un n. pr. Macabé→ macchabée 1 ♦ Danse macabre : représentation allégorique de la Mort entraînant dans une ronde des personnages de toutes conditions. 2 ♦ (1842) Qui a pour objet les… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Dance of Death — • Originally a species of spectacular play akin to the English moralities. It has been traced back to the middle of the fourteenth century Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Dance of Death     Dance of Death …   Catholic encyclopedia

• macabre — [15] Macabre is now used generally for ‘ghastly’, but that is a late 19th century development. It originated in the very specific phrase dance macabre, which denoted a dance in which a figure representing death enticed people to dance with him… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• macabre — [15] Macabre is now used generally for ‘ghastly’, but that is a late 19th century development. It originated in the very specific phrase dance macabre, which denoted a dance in which a figure representing death enticed people to dance with him… …   Word origins

• Dance of Death (disambiguation) — Dance of Death commonly refers to the Danse Macabre, a late medieval allegory of the universality of death. Dance of Death or The Dance of Death may also refer to: In theatre and film: The Dance of Death (play), a 1900 play by August Strindberg… …   Wikipedia

• Dance of the Dead — may refer to: Danse Macabre, a late medieval allegory on the universality of death Dance of the Dead (film), a 2008 American horror film Dance of the Dead (Ravenloft novel), a Dungeons Dragons tie in novel Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror),… …   Wikipedia

• macabre — (adj.) early 15c., from O.Fr. (danse) Macabré (dance) of Death (1376), probably a translation of M.L. (Chorea) Machabæorum, lit. dance of the Maccabees (leaders of the Jewish revolt against Syro Hellenes; see MACCABEES (Cf. Maccabees)). The… …   Etymology dictionary