Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A slow, stately dance, probably of Italian origin, but much practised in Spain.
- n. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, which is properly duple and very slow.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries
- n. music composed for dancing the pavane
Examples
“They go—like six months, I think it’s sort of like some odd pavan, you know, where someone curtsies and someone bows, and then they walk around, you know, touching fingers and staring at each other hatefully the whole time.”
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“Duniya ki jitani bahanen hain un sabaki shraddha hai isamein hai dharam karam bhaiya ka ye bahana ki raksha isamein hai jaise subhadra aur kishan ka jaise badari aur pavan ka jaise dharati aur gagan ka ye raakhi bandhan ...”
“Paul Luetkeman published a pavan on Ohn dich muss in 1597, and Francesco Rovigo based a Magnificat on Venus, du und dein Kind 1583.”
“People will burn out on being AS socialially networked as they are now. reply pavan”
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“And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan, and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in Covent Garden wooing from their balconies with sucking mouths and the pox-fouled wenches of the taverns and young wives that, gaily yielding to their ravishers, clipped and clipped again.”
“And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan, and saw with the eyes of memory kind gentlewomen in”
“The Passamezzo (or passy-measures pavin) tune in the Appendix has a similar construction to the ordinary pavan, the form of which has been explained earlier in this section -- _i. e._, it consists of regular”
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
“He says that the instrumentalists increase the speed of the _pavan_ every time they play it through, and by the time it has reached the moderate speed of a _basse-dance_, it is no longer called Pavan, but Passemeze.”
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
“Seigneurs graves,' in dancing the pavan on great occasions, wear their 'grands manteaux, et robes de parade.”
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
“Hunger turned to anger in Haiti's capital on Wednesday as hundreds of protesters marched through the streets accusing local officials of demanding Remember the iconic Lata-Mukesh song 'Sawan ka mahina, pavan kare sor'?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pavan’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
inquest, halyard, catamount, occlude, founder, more, grouse, grapple, water butt, antepenultimate, palimpsest, hob and 196 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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Reading The Anathemata - fragments of...
pertinent to text…
gaudeous, glaciation, fecund, equinox, cranial, rubric, boreal, oblate, cognates, lithic, cerements, mime and 34 more...
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hoppestere
dancing on waves - a mysterious term of Chaucer that I can't bury or even embalm.
mudra, orchesis, poussette, gestic, reel, coupee, riffle, hula, allemande, pavan, pantomime, geisha and 21 more...
Tweets
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"...some criminal hand had merged at least three complements into one unmeaning heap, and that this same hand had spread out several manuscript sheets of music, the score of a pavan in C minor."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 39 Mar 20, 2008