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BILLY DIMPLE. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Billy Dimple" was a song by Thomas Collett. A 'Billy Dimple' was a macaroni, or a primping, fashionably dressed young man, often portrayed as vain and arrogant but who was not always effete. Billy Dimple could also be a womanizer, as was the character of the same name in Royal Tyler's American play The Contrast [1] (1787).

The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple Sitting for his Picture

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Printed sources : - John Johnson (A Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol.5), 1750; p. 73. John Walsh (Caledonian Country Dances vol. II), c. 1737; No. 301, p. 41.

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-'''BILLY DIMPLE.''' English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Billy Dimple" was a song by Thomas Collett. A 'Billy Dimple' was a macaroni, or a primping, fashionably dressed young man, often portrayed as vain and arrogant but who was not always effete. Billy Dimple could also be a womanizer, as was the character of the same name in Royal Tyler's American play '''The Contrast''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Contrast_(play)] (1787). [[File:billydimple.jpg|600px|thumb|right|The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple Sitting for his Picture]]
+'''BILLY DIMPLE.''' English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "Billy Dimple" was a song by Thomas Collett. A 'Billy Dimple' was a macaroni, or a primping, fashionably dressed young man, often portrayed as vain and arrogant but who was not always effete. Billy Dimple could also be a womanizer, as was the character of the same name in Royal Tyler's American play '''The Contrast''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Contrast_(play)] (1787). [[File:billydimple.jpg|500px|thumb|right|The Macaroni Painter, or Billy Dimple Sitting for his Picture]]
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