English

Verb

dance attendance

1. To wait obsequiously (upon someone).
   • Shakespeare

     A man of his place, and so near our favour, / To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 33:

     Astonishingly, the king's health rallied, causing Orléans's antechamber to become deserted again as courtiers rushed back to dance attendance at the royal bedside.