dancehall

Etymology

From dance + hall.

dancehall means A public hall for dancing. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

noun

A public hall for dancing.“Six years later there were barely any dancehalls to supervise—it was all glitzy discos attached to pubs.”
A genre of Jamaican dance music derived from dub and reggae.“It sounded Jamaican to me, a form of dancehall, and […] I wandered over and watched the dancing.”