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allemande en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).

Meanings

1. A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.
   • […] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:

Forms

Deriveds

allemande left

Synonyms

allemanda (instrumental dance form) · almain (instrumental dance form) · alman (instrumental dance form)

Translations (7)

ru аллема́нда (instrumental dance form) · cs allemanda (instrumental dance form) · ca alemanda (instrumental dance form) · ca alemanya (instrumental dance form) · pt alemanda (instrumental dance form) · nl allemande (instrumental dance form) · sv allemande (instrumental dance form)

allemande en · VERB

Etymology

Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).

Meanings

1. To perform this dance.
   • The gaudy splashes of lightning made it seem that some weird dance was going on, one where you threw your partner into the nearest tree instead of allemanding her, or dug your knee into his crotch instead of doing a do-si-do. 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

Forms

Relateds

alamand · alamande · allemande sauce