Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stately 16th-century dance in duple meter.
  • noun Music The music for this dance, often used as the first movement of a suite.
  • noun A lively dance of the mid-18th century in triple meter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, the first movement after the prelude in a suite.
  • noun A German dance in 3/4 time, resembling the older style of waltz, and often so called.
  • noun A German national dance in lively 2/4 time.
  • noun A figure in dancing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.
  • noun A figure in dancing.

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  • noun A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.

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  • noun egg-thickened veloute

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, feminine of allemand, German, from Latin Alemannī, an ancient Germanic tribe; see Alemanni.]

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From French allemand "German".

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  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

    noun

    Usage: often capitalized

    Etymology: French, from feminine of allemand German

    Date: 1685

    1: a musical composition or movement (as in a baroque suite) in moderate tempo and duple or quadruple time

    2 a: a 17th and 18th century court dance developed in France from a German folk dance b: a dance step with arms interlaced

    February 6, 2008

  • In square dancing allemande is a series of moves where dancers face their corners and turn around each other 360 degrees, dropping the handhold at the end as the dancers rejoin their respective partners. A lot of people in square dancing spell this "alamand." The caller usually calls out "allemande left" or "allemande right".

    February 6, 2008

  • Allemande is a word used in American square dancing. In square dancing, the caller will call out "Allemande your partner", and the dancers link arms at the elbow and rotate.

    June 25, 2009

  • egg-thickened veloute

    June 27, 2010