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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A stately 16th-century dance in duple meter.
  2. n. Music A composition written to or as if to accompany this dance, often used as the first movement of a suite.
  3. n. A lively dance of the mid-18th century in triple meter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In music, the first movement after the prelude in a suite. Like the prelude, it is sometimes absent. It is in 4/4 time, a rather fast andante, and consists of two strains, each repeated, and generally of equal length.
  2. n. A German dance in 3/4 time, resembling the older style of waltz, and often so called.
  3. n. A German national dance in lively 2/4 time.
  4. n. A figure in dancing.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (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.
  2. n. A figure in dancing.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. egg-thickened veloute

Etymologies

  1. From French allemand "German". (Wiktionary)
  2. French, feminine of allemand, German, from Latin Alemannī, an ancient Germanic tribe; see Alemanni. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. almain
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  1. alman

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  2. levant
  3. adresse
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  2. persuader
  3. d'europe
  1. tranquille
  2. saveur
  3. tourner
  1. flotte
  2. d'appui

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  • fbharjo egg-thickened veloute Jun 27, 2010

  • Sargee7 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. Jun 24, 2009

  • treeseed 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". Feb 6, 2008

  • treeseed 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 Feb 6, 2008

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