noun
- a round dance resembling the polka.
- the music for this dance.
noun
- a 19th-century German dance resembling a slow polka
- a piece of music composed for or in the manner of this dance
n.round dance resembling a polka, 1849, from German Schottische, from schottische (tanz) “Scottish (dance),” from Schotte “a native of Scotland,” from Old High German Scotto, from Late Latin Scottus (see Scot). The pronunciation is French.