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brawl. Did the British dance called the brawl, a kind of cotil- lion popular into the 19th century in which many dancers held hands and moved closer together, have anything to do with our slang expression brawl, for “a party”? Some etymologists be- lieve that it is the origin of the word, but others believe the clamor or disturbance of brawl in the sense of “an argument” is responsible. |