minuet

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  1. noun A slow, stately pattern dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples, originating in 17th-century France.
  2. noun The music for or in the rhythm of the minuet.
  3. noun A movement in 3/4 time that is usually the third, but sometimes the second, of a four-movement symphony or string quartet.

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  1. French menuet, from Old French, small, dainty (from the small steps characteristic of the dance), diminutive of menu, small, from Latin minūtus; see minute2.

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  1. = Spanish minuete, minué = Portuguese minuete = Italian minuetto, from French menuet, a dance so called from the small steps taken in it, from menuet, smallish, little, pretty, thin (Cotgrave), diminutive of menu. small, from Latin minutus, small: see minute.
 

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