WALTZ

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 34

(Germ, waltzer.) The name of the German national dance, and also of the species of music by which it is accompanied. Bohemia is said to be the original home of the wall/., whence it soon spread into other parts of Germany, and all over the Continent; and within the last few naturalized In England. [s. 1339]