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CHOROGRAPHY

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHOROGRAPHY . (1) (From the Gr. xeepa, a See also:

tract of See also:country, and ypac/ieta, to write), a description or delineation on a See also:map of a See also:district or tract of country; it is to be distinguished from " See also:geography " and " See also:topography," which treat of the See also:earth as.a whole and of particular places respectively. The word is See also:common in old See also:geographical See also:treatises, but is now superseded by the wider use of " topography." (2) (From the Gr. xop6s, See also:dance), the See also:art of dancing, or a See also:system of notation to indicate the steps and movements in dancing.

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