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- noun Plural form of
minuet .
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Examples
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Springing to their hind legs, they pranced and bowed in minuets.
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Even less extreme movements are odd, such as minuets generally taken as fast scherzos with much slower trios.
Album review: Conductor Marc Minkowski's take on Haydn's 'London' symphonies 2010
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On the second of September, the Prince left Blair and went to the house of Lude, where he was very cheerful, and took his share in several dances, such as minuets and Highland reels; the first reel the Prince called for was, "This is no 'mine ain House;" he afterwards commanded a
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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Oh, the tales of toe shoes and tumbling, of minuets, coxswains, and dressage!
The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011
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Drill plenty of holes, and fish them for 30 minuets with live bait and jigs.
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But Unlimited calling is very, very sweet, I can always call back hummmmting times without stressing myself out about using up my minuets.
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For $55 too $215 dollars per month (and everything in between) you can start at 450 too 6000 minuets and call within Mexico too cell, landlines, the US and visa versa with no roaming, as long as at least 50% of the minuets are too or within the USA.
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Well, my dog Dexter can tear anything to pieces, literally, we gave him a baseball and he took the outer cover off in ten minuets.
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Kissinger's account of his intricate diplomatic minuets with Mao and his deputy Zhou Enlai will be familiar to readers of his earlier memoirs, but it loses little of its force here.
A Diplomat Looks East Bret Stephens 2011
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Drill plenty of holes, and fish them for 30 minuets with live bait and jigs.
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