Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A 17th-century French dance characterized by running and gliding steps to an accompaniment in triple time.
- n. Music The second movement of the classical baroque suite, typically following the allemande.
Wiktionary
- n. music An old French dance from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.
- n. music The second movement of a baroque suite (following the allemande, and before the sarabande)
WordNet 3.0
- n. a court dance of the 16th century; consisted of short advances and retreats
Etymologies
- French, from feminine present participle of courir, to run, from Old French courre, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My patient puppy darted out of the path of our wild courante.”
“Nowadays, I think it's been taken over by “avoir la courante” which is precisely - to have “the runs” (such realistic expressions!)”
“Nowadays, I think it's been taken over by “avoir la courante” which is precisely - to have “the runs” such realistic expressions!”
“Trackbacks: une erreur courante — Climb to the Stars”
“Trackbacks: une erreur courante by Stephanie Booth on 02.03.2006”
“Malgr les avantages qu'il semble prsenter pour cet usage, le ferrociment n'est pas utilise de faon courante pour les toitures.”
“With the Stuarts came the wild courante or corante --”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
“A mon avis, la traduction informatique intégrale va devenir monnaie courante, et elle permettra de communiquer à la base avec davantage de gens.”
“Traitées par des systèmes informatiques spécifiques, les données (lexicales et textuelles) portent sur divers registres du français: langue littéraire (du 14e au 20e siècle), langue courante (écrite et parlée), langue scientifique et technique (terminologies), et régionalismes.”
“Les données, traitées par des systèmes informatiques spécifiques et originaux, constamment enrichies et renouvelées, portent sur tous les registres du français: langue littéraire (du 14e au 20e siècle), langue courante (écrite, parlée), langue scientifique et technique”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘courante’.
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MUSIC - dance styles
A list generated by Phrontistery
http://phrontistery.info/dance.html
which I wanted to have along with my own lists on Wordnikallemande, beguine, bergamask, bolero, bossa-nova, boston, bourrée, bransle, buck-and-wing, cabriole, cakewalk, canary and 93 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
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Musical words
nocturne, flat, sharp, waltz, etude, opera, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, cello, flute and 131 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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Baroque spokes
cine phone need, regular canon, brook street broo..., churrigueresque, churrigueresco, cured fresco, allemande, toccata, bourree, chaconne, galliard, putto and 20 more...
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the musician
Started off as names of musical pieces and miscellaneous music terms, now broadened to dance and theatre. (May recategorize this to finer details.)
oratorio, berceuse, barcarolle, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, polonaise, mazurka, overture, canto, arabesque, sinfonia, sonata and 44 more...
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