[Gr. κόρδαξ.] An indecent or extravagant dance of the Old Greek Comedy.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. xx. Dissolute motions and wanton countenaunces in that whiche was called Cordax.
1798. R. Cumberland, trans. Aristoph., Clouds, in Observ., VI. 168.
| With the obscene device of an old hag | |
| Dancing the drunken cordax in her cups. |
1820. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., I. p. xxix. The cordax or dance of comedy.
1847. J. Leitch, trans. Müller’s Man. Archæol., 426. Silenus as a cordax-dancer.
