Definitions
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- noun A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.
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- noun Alternative form of
coranto .
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Examples
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Immediately after I saw the still-room door open, and made sure she was coming through the garden, and so over the breach and down to the park; and so, thought I, ‘Aha, Mistress Deb, if you are so ready to dance after my pipe and tabor, I will give you a couranto before you shall come up with me.’
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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Immediately after I saw the still-room door open, and made sure she was coming through the garden, and so over the breach and down to the park; and so, thought I, 'Aha, Mistress Deb, if you are so ready to dance after my pipe and tabor, I will give you a couranto before you shall come up with me.'
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
bilby commented on the word couranto
Is this sprightly dance like that of vendingmachines during mating season?
November 2, 2021