An evolution in dancing.
1807–8. He is famous at the pirouet and the pigeon-wing; a fiddle-stick is his idol, and a dance his elysium.—W. Irving, ‘Salmagundi’ (1824), 28. (N.E.D.)
1824. [We had] none of your dandy pidgeon wings, shawsees, or rigermadoons.—‘Old Colony Memorial,’ Plymouth, March 6.
1847. I came shuffling forward to the tune of “green sleeves,” and cut the “pigeon wing” just in front of the astonished pedagogue.—Yale Lit. Mag., xii. 203 (March).
1888. He [the negro] ambled out, as lithe as a youngster, cut some pigeon-wings, and then skipped and flung himself about with the agility of a boy.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ pp. 233–4.
