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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