The Full Strawberry Moon reminds me of all these things and of one thing more. Perhaps the Algonquin people knew this next thing better than mostâthe importance of ritual, of acknowledging the rite of passage from daughter to woman. Every June, the Algonquin people held a festival culminating in an all-night dance.
sashay â(plural sashays) 1  A chassÃ©. 2  A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
2. dusky-naturally having skin of a dark color; a dark-skinned beauty; gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks; a smile on his swarthy face; `swart' is archaic. swart, swarthy, dark-skinned.archaicism, archaism-the use of an archaic expression.er eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context.