Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
courant . - noun See
courant .
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- noun A fast-paced
dance which originated inFrance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The coranto is a difficult movement to perform gracefully.
The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884
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I confess that I was uneasy, for Frances was a country girl, and the coranto was the most trying, though, if well done, the most beautiful of all dances.
The Touchstone of Fortune Charles Major 1884
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[v] Probably "coranto": a baroque/renaissance dance style according to Wikipedia.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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Go in, my brave Profane, to my lords; they will give thee for thy welcome as good a coranto€* as the whole of this kingdom will afford.
The Holy War 2001
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Even the Pope (I speak in all reverence) must play billiards or trip a coranto now and then!
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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She was proficient in the making of preserves and unguents, could play the harpsichord and the virginals acceptably, could embroider an altarcloth to admiration, and, in spite of a trivial lameness in walking, could dance a coranto or a saraband against any woman between two seas.
The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918
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Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have these gifts a curtain before em? are they like to take dust, like Mistress Malls picture? why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto?
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She was proficient in the making of preserves and unguents, could play the harpsichord and the virginals acceptably, could embroider an altarcloth to admiration, and, in spite of a trivial lameness in walking, could dance a coranto or a saraband against any woman between two seas.
The Certain Hour 1909
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_ Wherefore are these things hid? ... why dost thou not _go to church in a galliard_, and _come home in a coranto_?
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Morley (1597) speaks of the Volte, and says it is characterised by 'rising and leaping,' and is of the same 'measure' as a coranto.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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