| 释义 |
‖ legong|lɛˈgɒŋ|
[Indonesian.]
A stylized Balinese dance performed by young girls. Also attrib. Also, one of the performers of such a dance.
1926E. Mordaunt Further Venture Bk. xxiii. 291 For three days preparations have been going on for a..Legong..given by a man who has won a law-suit. 1930H. Powell Last Paradise xii. 109 Runis and Madé Réi were nine years old... They danced the sacred traditional measures of the legong. 1937M. Covarrubias Island of Bali (1972) viii. 224 As the archetype of the delicate and feminine, the legong is the finest of Balinese dances... The legong is performed at feasts, generally in the late afternoon when the heat of the day has subsided. Ibid. 228 A very popular dance that seems related to the legong is the djogéd, performed by a girl in a variation of the legong costume and in the traditional legong steps. 1971Walkabout (Austral.) Nov. 73/1, I was sitting at this beautiful bar, listening to the distant flurry of the Legong dance. |
