danse macabre
French noun phrase
danse ma·ca·bre
däⁿs-mä-käbrᵊ
: macabre dance : dance of death
Note: In the medieval period, the dance macabre was a literary or pictorial representation of a procession or dance of both living and dead figures expressing the medieval allegorical concept of the all-conquering and equalizing power of death.
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