Polka, a species of dance, of Bohemian origin, invented in 1830, and introduced into England in 1843, the music to which is in time, and has the rhythmical peculiarity of being accented on the third quaver of the measure.
Polka
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 292
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