A French figure-dance invented by Isaac Rigʹadon.
“And Isaac’s Rigadoon shall live as long
As Raphael’s painting, or as Virgil’s song.”
Jenyns: Art of Dancing, canto ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.