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Brewer's: Corea
(The). The dancing mania, which in 1800 appeared in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. The usual manifestations were laughing, shouting, dancing, and convulsions. (Latin chorea, a dance where many dance simultaneously.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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