Polka

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 292

Polka, a species of dance, of Bohemian origin, invented in 1830, and introduced into England in 1843, the music to which is in \frac{3}{4} time, and has the rhythmical peculiarity of being accented on the third quaver of the measure.

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