noun
Word Origin French, recorded from late Middle English in anglicized forms such as dance of Machabray, dance of Macaber (see also macabre).
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Artistic motif on the universality of death
The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. Wikipedia