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Southern French clan dancing at end of show (9)

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I believe the answer is:

provencal

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'southern french' is the definition.
'Provencal' can be an answer for 'french' (Provencal is an example). I am unsure of the 'southern' bit.

'clan dancing at end of show' is the wordplay.
'dancing' indicates anagramming the letters.
'at end of' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (some letters go at the end of others).
'show' becomes 'prove' (proving is a kind of showing).
'clan' with letters rearranged gives 'ncal'.
'ncal' put after 'prove' is 'PROVENCAL'.

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(Other definitions for provencal that I've seen before include "French region" , "Of the region in south-eastern France" , "of Langue d'oc" , "Language in France" , "French language" .)

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