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- noun Plural form of
bransle .
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Examples
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That was yet another set of bransles, a voice announced, sounding slightly desperate.
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A basse-dance, a tourdion, a saltarello; bransles in sets of threes, and allemandes.
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Vit que tous les assistans dançoient en bransles dos à dos, & deux boucs ou cheures auec eux.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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On n'y dançoit que trois sortes de bransles, communement se tournant les espaules l'vn à l'autre, & le dos d'vn chascun visant dans le rond de la dance, & le visage en dehors.
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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Scarce a week went by that Whitehall was not lighted up for a ball, at which the king, queen, and courtiers danced bransles, corants, and
Royalty Restored 1883
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