Neither rounds nor longways persisted in American folk dancing proper, although both formations are found in children's games, and the still-popular "Virginia Reel" is a longways.
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But the French, who had similar folk dances, associated the English word "country" with their term "contre" ("against") to produce the name " contredanse " for the longways "type".