Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A slow, stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, usually in duple meter.
- n. A piece of music for this dance.
Wiktionary
- n. music A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- n. music, dance A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter.
WordNet 3.0
- n. music composed for dancing the pavane
- n. a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries
Etymologies
- From French pavane, from dialectal Italian pavana, contraction of the older padovana, feminine of padovano, meaning from the city of Padua (Italian Padova, dialectal form Pava). (Wiktionary)
- French pavane, from Italian pavana, from feminine of pavano, of Padua, from dialectal pavàn, from Pava, dialectal variant of Padova, Padua. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Kalira went into a parade gait called a pavane, a kind of slow-motion trot with feet raised as high as possible, as Lan sat very straight and still in the saddle.”
“The masked dancing, if it were dancing at all, which had been general in the days of the Emperor Maximilian, and which had not yet gone out of fashion altogether at the imperial court of Vienna, had long been relegated to the past in Spain, and the beautiful "pavane" dances, of which awkward travesties survive in our day, had been introduced instead.”
“Harry was fumbling with her bodice but unable to manage the laces, changed his mind, and decided to lead her in a disorderly pavane instead, smudging the wet paint of the new flats as he went.”
“Before he could respond, Queen Kathryn called to him to lead her out for the first pavane.”
“His voice was anxious, but the steps of the pavane carried us apart before I could answer.”
“Of course the Big Cheeses at the conference are neither stupid nor uninformed, so the whole thing is basically an exercise in signal sending, a pavane of surreal doubletalk.”
“I kept thinking of trying to make a pun on “pavane”.”
“The new pavane, gagliarde and saltarelli were included virtually in every collection of lute music.”
“Their courtship had been a pavane, a stately unfolding, bound by protocols never agreed or voiced, but generally observed ....”
“An executioner and a nun did a pas de deux, a round of simple circling steps, and then the others gradually joined, the skeleton men and raven women, and in the end it was a graceful pavane they did, courtly and deadly and slow, with gestures so deliberate they seemed acted as well as danced, and Clyde saw his young partner move silkenly in their midst.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pavane’.
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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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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 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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perfectly plosive p's
positively p's, please!
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Manji's Random Wordlist
The title says it all
velour, vivacity, subterfuge, sable, divination, gentry, vindication, compendium, pistons, metamorphosis, methodology, polyphony and 91 more...
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noble mythical words
halcyon, yore, chevalier, geas, dour, clarion, codex, selkie, mythic, rime, hoarfrost, eldritch and 112 more...
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sionnach's Words
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
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the Island of the Day Before
phoebus, promontory, succor, indite, sickle, cerulean, tenebrous, specter, bastion, clemency, miasma, nocturlabe and 112 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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Dance Magic Dance
Styles of dance
ballet, tango, waltz, salsa, polka, swing, charleston, foxtrot, jitterbug, tap, quickstep, mambo and 101 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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birdlime's Words
macadam, birdlime, alabaster, inspissate, agon, trilemma, orrery, pentimento, palimpsest, palaver, donnybrook, chthonic and 16 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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