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                            danse macabre
                        
                                                
                        
                            dance of death
                        
                                                
                                                    
                
                    
                    Definition: a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave
Definition: A conventional subject in art, literature and drama, or a particular work in that style, in which death (in the form of a putrid corpse, skeleton, the Grim Reaper, etc) is shown leading people to the grave.