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Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

a social dance adapted to the modern ballroom and including couple dances in embrace position (as the fox trot, tango, two-step, waltz), face-to-face jazz dances (as the charleston), and certain folk dances (as the csardas, mazurka, polka, scottische) done usually for recreation and sometimes for exhibition.  3, record 2, English, - ballroom%20dance

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Ballroom dance. Ballroom dancing (...) is nearly always now performed by couples, dancing prescribed steps for their own pleasure either at private function or in public dance halls. Between 1820 and 1910 the popular dances were the waltz, quadrille, and polka. The Russian and eastern European nobility (...) also danced (...) such national dances as mazurkas and csardas.  1, record 2, English, - ballroom%20dance

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

celle qui, comme la valse ou le tango, se danse dans les réunions ou dans les dancings.  2, record 2, French, - danse%20de%20salon

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Les danses de salon connurent une grande vogue, surtout à partir du début du XVIIIe s. (...) Au cours du XIXe s., dansées par couples, mazurka, polka, scottish, valse, remportèrent un très vif succès. (...) Dès le début du XIXe s., les Européens s'engouèrent pour des danses importées des Etats-Unis (cake-walk,,, fox-trot, shimmy, charleston, black-bottom) (...)  3, record 2, French, - danse%20de%20salon

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish