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- noun Plural form of
pavane .
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Examples
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The couples whirled about in graceful pavanes, creating kaleidoscopic patterns about the floor.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The couples whirled about in graceful pavanes, creating kaleidoscopic patterns about the floor.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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The couples whirled about in graceful pavanes, creating kaleidoscopic patterns about the floor.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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Pierre Hantaï's thrilling Mirare CDs of Bach's "Goldberg Variations," saucy Scarlatti sonatas, and graceful pavanes by British composer John Bull establish him as one of today's most exciting and individual harpsichordists, as creative in his own realm as his father was in art.
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Some day, when the Wateaus of the future are painting the court ladies who again dance pavanes in sunlit glades, wearing wigs and crinoline, such data will amuse.
Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank
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Manuel was well liked by the nobility, and when the barons and the fine ladies assembled in the evening for pavanes and branles and pazzamenos nobody danced more statelily than Messire Manuel.
Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918
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He introduced her father to a fashionable musician, whose pavanes and sonatas were composed with that lack of matter and excess of erudition which delight the amateur and irritate the artist, and he walked down the rooms looking for seats where they could talk undisturbed for a few minutes.
Evelyn Innes 1892
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